Search results for "Guidelines"
ICU clinician education increased guideline compliance, decreased ICU brain dysfunction
A trial in the Netherlands required ICU nurses and physicians to complete two e-learning programs, one focused on delirium screening and the other focused on recommendations from the American College of Critical Care Medicine's 2013 guidelines on pain, agitation, and delirium.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/16/3.htm
16 Jan 2019
Surviving Sepsis Campaign releases updated guidelines for hospitalized adults
Topics covered among the 93 recommendations include screening and early treatment of sepsis, hemodynamic management, ventilation, additional therapies, and long-term outcomes and goals of care. Changes include which sepsis risk scores are recommended.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/10/20/2.htm
20 Oct 2021
A bone to pick
Osteoporosis is undertreated in fragility fracture patients. Hospitalists have an opportunity to help close that gap.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/a-bone-to-pick.htm
24 Jan 2024
Outpatient therapy for endocarditis used more often than guidelines recommend
Patients with infective endocarditis who received outpatient parenteral antibiotic treatment despite not meeting Infectious Diseases Society of America criteria had no increased risk of mortality or readmission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/30/3.htm
30 Jan 2019
March 20, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/
Guidelines suggest fidaxomicin over vancomycin for Clostridioides difficile infection
The Infectious Diseases Society of America and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America made three new recommendations in a focused update of their guidelines on Clostridioides difficile infection.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/06/30/4.htm
30 Jun 2021
Take a bite out of HAP
Brushing teeth reduces hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) risk, and changes are needed to make this simple practice happen more regularly in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/06/free/take-a-bite-out-of-hap.htm
6 Mar 2024
Chat on Twitter about new pneumonia guidelines
ACP Hospitalist's next Twitter chat will address new guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia this Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. ET.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/01/29/1.htm
29 Jan 2020
A quick heart failure stay
Heart failure patients who would typically be admitted were treated instead on a short-stay unit in a recent project.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/13/a-quick-heart-failure-stay.htm
13 Mar 2024
Thoracic medical societies issue guideline on managing malignant pleural effusion
The expert panel advised using ultrasound to guide pleural interventions and not performing pleural interventions in asymptomatic patients, among other recommendations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/17/2.htm
17 Oct 2018