Search results for "Risk scores"
Higher Framingham scores predict cognitive decline
The Framingham vascular risk scores may be better at predicting cognitive decline in late middle age patients than a score specifically designed to predict dementia, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/03/3.htm
3 Apr 2013
Recent Research
Pneumonia after stroke, quetiapine for delirium, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/rr.htm
15 Jun 2013
Predicting mortality
Algorithms could be used in assessing safety and quality of care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/07/risk.htm
15 Jul 2013
acp-hosp0000
flags and high risk scores, you’re not picking up these little oldladies or diabetics with cellulitis,” said Dr.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/acph-201403-readmission_t1.pdf
28 Feb 2014
Medicare readmission penalties examined
Advice is given on how hospitals and clinicians can avoid the pitfalls of the penalty program, and how policymakers could change it to operate more effectively.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/readmission.htm
15 Mar 2014
Rivaroxaban has similar safety, efficacy versus warfarin in older and younger nonvalvular afib patients
Rivaroxaban appears to have similar safety and efficacy compared with warfarin in both older and younger patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, although stroke and major bleeding rates were higher in the elderly group, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/06/11/4.htm
11 Jun 2014
Preoperative sepsis associated with increased risk of thrombosis after surgery
Surgery patients who had sepsis or systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) preoperatively had a significantly increased risk of arterial or venous thrombosis in the 30 days after surgery, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/09/17/3.htm
17 Sep 2014
Recent Research
Rivaroxaban versus warfarin, postop frailty score, parasitic infections and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/rr.htm
15 Oct 2014
Tweaking rapid response teams
Automation, new team members improving outcomes at some hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/rapid-response-teams.htm
15 Sep 2015
Acute kidney injury risk factors identified in orthopedic surgery patients
Researchers developed a risk score based on 7 factors: older age, male sex, diabetes, number of prescribed drugs, lower estimated glomerular filtration rate, use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin-receptor blockers, and higher American Society of Anesthesiologists grade.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/18/1.htm
18 Nov 2015