Search results for "Geriatrics"
Collaboration and experimentation reduce C. difficile infections
Rates drop by 73% on pilot wards at English hospital Salford Royal.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/success.htm
15 Dec 2010
Honest talk about SNFs
Discharge to a skilled nursing facility is a moment for serious discussion of prognosis, a geriatrician says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/21/free/honest-talk-about-snfs.htm
21 Dec 2022
Helping hip fracture patients
Is comanagement the answer?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/helping-hip-fracture-patients.htm
15 Dec 2020
Photograph courtesy of Kevin C. Rose, ACVB & AtlantaPhotos.com. ...
Hospital Midtown: 475 licensed bedGrady Memorial Hospital: 953 licensed bedsNorthside Hospital: 537 licensed bedsPiedmont Hospital: 488 licensed bedsSaint Joseph's Hospital: 410 licensed bedsWesley Woods Geriatric Hospital: 82 licensed beds.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/07/acph-201607-pulseonatlanta.pdf
11 Jul 2016
Helping homeless patients during COVID-19
Hospitalists have been working to improve outcomes for a vulnerable population.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/helping-homeless-patients-during-covid-19.htm
15 Sep 2020
See, and then stop, elderly abuse
Hospitalization presents prime opportunity to intervene in abuse of elderly patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/see-and-then-stop-elderly-abuse.htm
15 Jan 2019
Me, my fridge, and I
We take refrigeration for granted, but a geriatric fridge plays an important (and humorous) role in one physician's work from home.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/26/free/newman-me-my-fridge-and-i.htm
26 Jan 2022
Pensacola, Florida, was discovered by Spanish explorers led by ...
medical school, provides third- and fourth-year clinical training in internalmedicine, family medicine, pediatrics, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology,geriatrics, psychiatry and emergency medicine at the Regional MedicalSchool Campus–Pensacola.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/09/acph-201309-pulseonpensacola.pdf
12 Aug 2013
Dementia in the hospital
The pandemic added to the pre-existing systemic and legal challenges clinicians face managing hospitalized patients with dementia and behavioral disturbances.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/09/dementia-in-the-hospital.htm
9 Feb 2022
Facing feeding tubes
Evidence and guidelines are against feeding tubes for patients with advanced dementia, but practice often differs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/facing-feeding-tubes.htm
15 Feb 2019