Search results for "Supplement"
Review synthesizes advice to prevent bloodstream infections from vascular access devices
CMS is considering hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia prevention, including bloodstream infections that stem from medical devices, as a future focus of quality reporting, according to the authors of a new review.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/15/review-synthesizes-advice-to-prevent-bloodstream-infections-from-vascular-access-devices.htm
15 May 2024
Recognize, respond to restrictive eating disorders
Hiding food, exercising discreetly, and manipulating feeding tubes are just a few behaviors hospitalists may have to address.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/recognize-respond-to-restrictive-eating-disorders.htm
20 Mar 2024
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
Buprenorphine, cannabis, and other periop challenges
Perioperative medication management is particularly tricky when it comes to patients who are already taking drugs for chronic pain.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/22/buprenorphine-cannabis-and-other-periop-challenges.htm
22 Nov 2023
Playing the hospitalist character
Medical schools and hospitals are testing serious video games as a method to engage learners and improve care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/11/playing-the-hospitalist-character.htm
11 Oct 2023
Investigating inpatient hypertension
Medication is often not the best solution for elevated blood pressure in the hospital, an expert explained at Internal Medicine Meeting 2023.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/03/investigating-inpatient-hypertension.htm
3 May 2023
Rural hospitalists face unique challenges, rewards
Hunting for beds in tertiary facilities and providing outpatient consults are among the diverse responsibilities of hospitalists in remote areas.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/26/rural-hospitalists-face-unique-challenges-rewards.htm
26 Apr 2023
Cases from the University of Massachusetts
Acute drug-induced pancytopenia, liver injury, anaplasmosis, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/22/free/brief-case-from-the-university-of-massachusetts.htm
22 Feb 2023
Intervention reduced medication burden in older patients discharged to postacute care
The single-center study randomized patients to either usual care or a pharmacist- or nurse practitioner-led medication review, patient/surrogate-approved deprescribing recommendations, and deprescribing actions initiated in the hospital and continued in postacute care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/intervention-reduced-medication-burden-in-older-patients-discharged-to-postacute-care.htm
8 Feb 2023
Tocilizumab approved for COVID-19
The FDA gave full approval to tocilizumab for adults with COVID-19 who are receiving systemic corticosteroids and require supplemental oxygen, noninvasive or invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, among other actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/25/tocilizumab-approved-for-covid-19.htm
25 Jan 2023