Search results for "healthy"
Hospital-acquired hyponatremia: Why are patients still dying?
Two experts summarize best practices.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/expert.htm
15 Feb 2009
Preventing heart disease by targeting patients' loved ones
Lori Mosca, ACP Member, explains how hospitalists can help reduce risk that runs in the family.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/qa.htm
15 Mar 2009
MKSAP: Endocrinology
A 42-year-old man is evaluated in the emergency department for a two-day history of fever, confusion, and abdominal pain... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/03/test.htm
15 Mar 2009
MKSAP: Ventricular tachycardia
The following cases and commentary, which address ventricular tachycardia, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/04/test.htm
15 Apr 2009
The most basic therapy: food
Nutrition support experts want you to think of food as a drug. Not in the negative sense of addiction, but positively as a therapy that’s critical to helping hospitalized patients get better.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/nutrition.htm
15 Aug 2009
Test yourself: Nutrition
The following cases and commentary, which address nutrition, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/ty.htm
15 Aug 2009
Too much information
A medical student recounts her experience as a patient.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/student.htm
15 Sep 2009
Hospital costs for potentially preventable hospitalizations were about one ...
As many as 4.4 million hospitalstays could possibly have been prevented with better ambulatory care, improved access to effective treatment orpatient adoption of healthy behaviors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/acph-200910-trends.pdf
23 Sep 2009
Code status discussions sometimes difficult, but necessary
Understanding individual preferences about code status is critical to delivering the care patients want. Still, code discussions between doctors and patients don't always happen when they should, or at all. A 2008 study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that only 10% of patients in six university-based hospitals had documented code discussions within 24 hours of admission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/status.htm
15 Oct 2009
Comforting the chronically ill
David K. Jones, MD, takes palliative care up a notch.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/profile.htm
15 Jan 2010