Search results for "Perspectives"
January issue is online and in the mail
This month's main story focuses on debates in sepsis care and ACP Hospitalist will hold a Twitter chat on the subject on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 5 p.m. Eastern.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/16/5.htm
16 Jan 2019
Hospitals report their responses to the pandemic
Several journal articles described recently implemented strategies for isolation, education, testing, visitors, and staff support, while others called for research collaboration and support for female hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/29/2.htm
29 Jul 2020
September 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/
Struggling with strategies for strain
Hospitalist leaders and hospital administrators were interviewed before the pandemic for a study about hospital capacity strain. The study authors explain some lessons that everyone working in hospitals can now take from their responses.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/02/struggling-with-strategies-for-strain.htm
2 Feb 2022
Top Docs and heart failure
Meet the 2019 Top Hospitalists and catch up on the latest in heart failure research.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/11/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Nov 2019
Readmission, mortality rates high for hospitalized HF patients worldwide
A systematic review and meta-analysis found that 13.2% and 35.7% of heart failure (HF) patients were readmitted at 30 days and one year and that 7.6% and 23.3% had died by those respective time points.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/26/readmission-mortality-rates-high-for-hospitalized-hf-patients-worldwide.htm
26 Jul 2023
Are bedside rounds evidence based?
A review found little proven benefit to clinicians gathering at patients' beds.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/are-bedside-rounds-evidence-based.htm
15 Apr 2019
The kidney versus the heart
Thinking has changed on acute kidney injury during heart failure decompensation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/11/the-kidney-versus-the-heart.htm
15 Nov 2019
August issue online and in the mail
This month's issue focuses on procalcitonin testing, hospitalist training in residency, oncology care communication, and femoral access for central lines.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/15/5.htm
15 Aug 2018
Ease up on antipsychotics
Antipsychotics started for an episode of agitation in the ICU are often continued through hospitalization and even after discharge, posing serious health risks to patients, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/ease-up-on-antipsychotics.htm
6 Apr 2022