Search results for "healthy"
Fighting the Speckled Monster
Vaccination has been an issue for a very long time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/07/free/newmans-notions-fighting-the-speckled-monster.htm
15 Jul 2019
Disadvantaged neighborhoods and safety-net hospitals had higher readmission rates
A retrospective analysis of Maryland hospital patients found that 30-day readmission rates varied from 14.1% to 12.5% with the disadvantage level of patients' home neighborhoods and from 14.8% to 11.6% with a hospital's safety-net status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/03/4.htm
3 Jul 2019
Top 10 medical myths, busted
Hospitalists should be a little more tentative about these tenets.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/im-top-10-medical-myths-busted.htm
15 Jun 2019
Cases from Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego
Leukemia cutis, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/brief-case-from-scripps-mercy-hospital-san-diego.htm
15 May 2019
How (and why) to clean a stethoscope
Research has found that stethoscopes harbor microbes and that many clinicians never clean theirs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/how-and-why-to-clean-a-stethoscope.htm
15 Apr 2019
HIV and AIDS
Use recommended clinical terminology on every encounter to clearly describe patients' status: either HIV infection only or HIV disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/coding-corner-hiv-and-aids.htm
15 Apr 2019
coding corner 10 ACP Hospitalist • April 2019 On ...
coding corner. 10 ACP Hospitalist • April 2019. On June 5, 1981, the CDC published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among previously healthy young gay men in Los
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/acph-201904-coding-corner-hiv-and-aids_t2.pdf
26 Mar 2019
coding corner 10 ACP Hospitalist • April 2019 On ...
coding corner. 10 ACP Hospitalist • April 2019. On June 5, 1981, the CDC published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among previously healthy young gay men in Los
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/acph-201904-coding-corner-hiv-and-aids_t1.pdf
26 Mar 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
Alternatives to drugs
This issue looks at antibiotic resistance, opioid prescribing, and patients' social needs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Mar 2019