Search results for "Geriatrics"
January 19, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/19/
Factor frailty into preop assessment
Frailty should be assessed along with baseline cognition, risk for delirium, functional status, nutritional status, and, in particular, patients' treatment goals and expectations, an expert said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/04/25/1.htm
25 Apr 2018
May 4, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/04/
Passive EHR tool reduces potentially inappropriate medications in older adults
Dosage of 11 of 16 medications, including haloperidol, decreased at a multihospital system after implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) tool that provided “geriatric context” to prescribing clinicians.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/20/passive-ehr-tool-reduces-potentially-inappropriate-medications-in-older-adults.htm
20 Sep 2023
Resource use, outcomes of hospitalization may be associated with care continuity
Medicare patients who were cared for by their primary care physician instead of a hospitalist were more likely to be discharged home and had slightly lower 30-day mortality rates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/11/22/4.htm
22 Nov 2017
Hospitalist-led ACE units show positive results
Two new trials of acute care for the elderly (ACE) services included hospitalists and found potential benefits to these alternative models of geriatric care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/17/4.htm
17 Aug 2011
ACOVE quality indicators may improve care in hospitalized elderly
Clinicians administered a checklist during rounds, which assessed for prophylaxis against venous thromboembolism, indwelling bladder catheters, mobilization, and delirium evaluation—four commonly encountered components of Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/07/12/2.htm
12 Jul 2017
Two common assessment methods highlight link between frailty and postoperative delirium
An analysis of elective surgery patients ages 70 years or older found that those assessed as frail by the frailty index or frailty phenotype had double the risk of postoperative delirium versus those who weren't frail.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/22/two-common-assessment-methods-highlight-link-between-frailty-and-postoperative-delirium.htm
22 Nov 2023
In the News
Behavior changes trigger drop in MRSA rates, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/news.htm
15 Jul 2009
Deciding when patients can't
End-of-life considerations for incapacitated patients without surrogates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/end-of-life.htm
15 Aug 2007