Search results for "Prognostication"
Thinking about how you treat
The new field of management reasoning holds potential to improve medical education and practice, researchers say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/thinking-about-how-you-treat.htm
21 Jun 2023
Prognostic value of sepsis criteria compared in ED and ICU
The qSOFA score was a better predictor than SIRS in the emergency department, while SOFA was more predictive than SIRS or qSOFA in the intensive care unit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/01/25/2.htm
25 Jan 2017
Online ratings, sleep, and more
Meet us on Twitter to discuss online ratings of hospitals and hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/07/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jul 2019
New score for predicting inpatient mortality after acute myocardial infarction
Factors independently associated with inpatient mortality after acute myocardial infarction included age, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, presentation after cardiac arrest, presentation in cardiogenic shock, presentation in heart failure, presentation with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, creatinine clearance, and troponin ratio.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/03/4.htm
3 Aug 2016
Syncope, sepsis resuscitation, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/recent-research.htm
15 Oct 2020
Lessons learned from a doctor's death
Lucy Kalanithi, MD, FACP, spoke about the death of her husband, a neurosurgeon who contracted stage 4 lung cancer and wrote a best-selling memoir.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/05/4.htm
5 Apr 2017
Inhaler education, hospital mergers, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/in-the-news.htm
15 May 2020
Simple score may predict early stroke mortality
A simple score based on four variables easily obtainable at the point of care may help predict inpatient and seven-day mortality after acute stroke, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/06/26/6.htm
26 Jun 2013
Diagnosing pulmonary embolism
A pulmonary embolism can present in a variety of clinical scenarios; however, there are several features that are typical.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/expert-analysis-diagnosing-pulmonary-embolism.htm
15 Aug 2017
Most scores moderately predictive for hemorrhage after thrombolysis
An analysis of scores to predict symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage risk after thrombolysis found all but one were moderately predictive, with one slightly better than the others.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/02/05/3.htm
5 Feb 2014