Search results for "Perspectives"
Responding to patients' strong emotions
Physicians are skilled at providing medical information but sometimes hesitate to address the emotion that might arise as a result.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/responding-to-patients-strong-emotions.htm
15 Jul 2021
Political conversations with patients
Questions about politics are inevitable in clinics and hospitals during this election season.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/political-conversations-with-patients.htm
15 Oct 2020
Beating burnout
Speakers at Hospital Medicine 2018 offer their advice on preventing, recognizing, and recovering from burnout.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/beating-burnout.htm
15 Jun 2018
Review offers four recommendations to improve hospitalists' procedural competency
While no convincing data suggested that bedside procedures performed by procedural specialists have better outcomes than those done by well-trained hospitalists, increased referrals and a lack of standardized training or assessment have led to decreasing procedural competency, a literature review found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/24/2.htm
24 Mar 2021
Racism in the record?
Two authors discuss their recent study finding that Black patients were twice as likely as White patients to be described with negative words in their history and physical notes, particularly in inpatient records.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/16/free/racism-in-the-record.htm
16 Feb 2022
Age associated with risk for death in ICU survivors
A French study found that mortality risk after ICU discharge increased progressively across all age strata, with a sharp increase in those ages 80 years and older, but excess long-term mortality was highest in younger, not elderly, patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/05/15/4.htm
15 May 2019
Finding new ways to teach procedures
Simulation is part of the current model for procedure training.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/finding-new-ways-to-teach-procedures.htm
15 Aug 2020
Staff, vets describe transitions from non-VA hospitals to VA primary care as inefficient
A qualitative study of hospital clinicians and veterans found gaps in four major processes, including transferring records and obtaining medications prescribed by non-Veterans Administration (VA) clinicians from VA pharmacies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/30/4.htm
30 Oct 2019
Stopping the cycle of C. diff
Microbiota therapies offer exciting potential to reduce the burden of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/free/stopping-the-cycle-of-c-diff.htm
8 Feb 2023
Sepsis, cardiac arrest, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/in-the-news.htm
15 Dec 2020