Search results for "Ethics"
Bundle compliance increased, mortality decreased under New York sepsis regulations
Under “Rory's Regulations,” use of the three-hour bundle for severe sepsis and septic shock increased from 53.4% to 64.7%, while six-hour bundle compliance increased from 23.9% to 30.8%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/12/1.htm
12 Sep 2018
Balanced crystalloids vs. saline, antibiotic stewardship, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/recent-research.htm
15 Aug 2018
Strange but true, a DNR tattoo
A critical care physician describes an unusual unconscious patient his team recently treated.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/qa-strange-but-true-a-dnr-tattoo.htm
15 Mar 2018
Preventing physician suicide
New efforts seek to reduce stigma among clinicians about mental illness and treatment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/preventing-physician-suicide.htm
15 Mar 2018
ACP urges doctors to focus on ‘hidden curriculum’
Faculty and senior clinicians should model empathy and encourage reflection and discussion of positive and negative behaviors in the training environment, the College's position paper said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/07/4.htm
7 Mar 2018
Ethics consults associated with positive user experiences, shorter LOS in ICU
Researchers reviewed 16 studies published from 1988 to 2015 that assessed outcomes after clinical ethics consultations took place in the ICU.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/02/14/2.htm
14 Feb 2018
Hospitalists weigh ethical, practical impacts of aid-in-dying laws
Early experience with California's End of Life Option Act highlights some of the challenges and concerns with allowing physicians to help seriously ill patients end their lives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/impacts-of-aid-in-dying-laws.htm
15 Jan 2018
Machine learning in the hospital
This issue also features coverage of aid-in-dying laws and Mayo Clinic's fall 2017 hospital medicine conference in Tucson, Ariz.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jan 2018
Drug-associated endocarditis on the rise
Hospitals face consequences of opioid addiction and difficult choices about treating endocarditis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/drug-associated-endocarditis.htm
15 Oct 2017
ACP reaffirms opposition to physician-assisted suicide
The College noted that there are arguments on both sides of the issue but concluded that the ethical arguments against legalization of physician-assisted suicide “remain the most compelling.”
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/09/20/5.htm
20 Sep 2017