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INITIAL SCREENING. Patients are generally admitted to the hospital with overt mani-festations of malnutrition.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/09/acph-201109-focus_t1.pdf
7 Sep 2011
Nutrition, contrast and AKI, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2020
Identify the toxin
An Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 speaker outlined overdose causes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/im-identify-the-toxin.htm
15 Jun 2019
Moving beyond medical needs
Some hospitals are treating patients' food and housing shortages.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/moving-beyond-medical-needs.htm
15 Mar 2019
MKSAP quiz on pregnancy
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on pregnancy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/mksap-quiz-on-pregnancy.htm
15 Oct 2019
SDOH data collected for varied reasons including curriculum development, quality improvement
A review found that food security or malnutrition was the social determinant of health (SDOH) most commonly screened for among patients hospitalized on medicine services, followed by housing, transportation, employment, education, income, functional status and disability, and social support.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/14/sdoh-data-collected-for-varied-reasons-including-curriculum-development-quality-improvement.htm
14 Dec 2022
Treat the elderly patient, not just the illness
Strategies for managing hospitalized elders and preventing decline.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/elderly.htm
15 Nov 2007
HCCs explained
Hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) are used by Medicare for risk adjustment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/coding-corner-hccs-explained.htm
15 Jun 2019
Weighing in on BMI
A patient's body mass index can have a profound effect on the complexity of care and the risks of complications, morbidity and mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/coding.htm
15 Apr 2011
Code carefully with nutrition guidelines
This column discusses classic chronic malnutrition and how it differs from acute nutritional deficiency.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/coding.htm
15 Jun 2013