Search results for "Chronic Disease"
Pulling it together
Comprehensive COPD care should include standardized diagnosis and treatment, patient education, careful discharge planning and follow-up.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/03/coverstory.htm
15 Mar 2011
Hospital-initiated transition interventions can improve stroke, MI outcomes
Transition-of-care interventions initiated in the hospital can help improve outcomes in adult patients with stroke and myocardial infarction (MI), according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/09/19/1.htm
19 Sep 2012
The physician as patient
Learning the science is easy. Learning what is actually important is so much more difficult.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/self.htm
15 Dec 2010
Advance care planning
Medicare began paying for advance care planning services in 2016 to encourage such conversations and compensate clinicians for the time spent having them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/12/coding-advance-care-planning.htm
15 Dec 2017
Challenges in combating COPD readmissions
Experts report on bundled payments and other efforts targeting COPD hospital costs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/08/challenges-in-combating-copd-readmissions.htm
15 Aug 2019
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
MKSAP quiz on mechanical ventilation
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on mechanical ventilation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/mksap-quiz-on-mechanical-ventilation.htm
15 May 2020
Blood loss anemia
Making a distinction between acute and chronic blood loss anemia is important.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/coding-blood-loss-anemia.htm
15 Jan 2016
In the News
Multivitamins after first heart attack, acetylcysteine for acetaminophen poisoning, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/04/itn.htm
15 Apr 2014
Mobile apps enter the hospital
An expert discusses which apps hospitalists should know about and how they can begin to prescribe them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/mobile-apps.htm
15 Dec 2015