Search results for "Ethics"
QI efforts to enhance communication with very ill can affect outcomes, analysis finds
Quality improvement (QI) interventions to improve communication with very sick patients are effective at reducing length of stay in the ICU and the use of nonbeneficial aggressive treatment, a review found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/11/07/2.htm
7 Nov 2012
Improving teamwork through the selection of medical trainees
Admissions requirements and interviews could be modified to emphasize teamwork, among other strategies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/01/residents.htm
15 Jan 2015
What it takes to lead
An MBA may or may not be needed, depending on whom you ask.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/lead.htm
15 Jun 2013
Keynote speaker Wachter addresses record number of attendees at HM 2012
SAN DIEGO—Hospital Medicine 2012, the annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine, brought more than 2,500 hospitalists to San Diego this week for the largest ever gathering of the specialty.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/04/11/1.htm
11 Apr 2012
Physicians don't always report impaired or incompetent colleagues
New score helps assess risk of adverse drug reactions in elderly patients
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/07/21/2.htm
21 Jul 2010
Earlier renal replacement therapy didn't provide benefit for patients with sepsis and AKI
The trial was stopped for futility after it found that providing renal replacement therapy within 12 hours of documented severe acute kidney injury (AKI) did not reduce 90-day mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/17/4.htm
17 Oct 2018
Letter from the Editor
Many think of hospital medicine as a field largely populated by young physicians, but this may be changing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/editor.htm
15 Oct 2008
You are a role model
When academic hospitalists observe their peers behaving unprofessionally, chances are residents and students are seeing the same thing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/qarole.htm
15 Oct 2012
Higher-dose prophylactic anticoagulation required to prevent thrombosis in hypoxemic COVID-19
Mortality and time to improvement didn't differ with twice the standard dose of heparin versus a standard or therapeutic dose, but there was a lower rate of new thromboembolic events with no increase in major bleeding, a French trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/29/free/higher-dose-prophylactic-anticoagulation-needed-to-prevent-thrombosis-in-hypoxemic-covid-19.htm
29 Mar 2023
Looking for a hospitalist? Be prepared, proactive
Kirk Mathews, CEO and co-founder of Inpatient Management Inc. of St. Louis, explains his cardinal rules of recruiting.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/recruiting.htm
15 Jul 2009