Search results for "geriatrician"
Bringing the hospital home
Pilot projects are providing inpatient-level care in patients' homes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/bringing-the-hospital-home.htm
15 Mar 2020
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about pressure stocking use after stroke, hospital-acquired pneumonia, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/jw.htm
15 Sep 2009
Pandemic parenting as a physician
Two hospitalists address the challenges of being a doctor and parent.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/pandemic-parenting-as-a-physician.htm
15 Oct 2020
Inpatient continuity of care declined in decade ending in 2006
Inpatients experienced a decline in continuity of care between 1996 and 2006, but the hospitalist model doesn't seem to be to blame, the authors of a new analysis concluded.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/10/19/1.htm
19 Oct 2011
Advance directives are the beginning, not the end
Despite the best planning, patients may change their minds at the end of life once they recognize their unique situations and their sometimes surprising decisions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/07/graymatters.htm
15 Jul 2012
Recent Research
Blood pressure after stroke, mortality risk prediction, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/04/rr.htm
15 Apr 2014
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Hospitalists' cost-effectiveness, vasopressin antagonists and hyponatremia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/jw.htm
15 Feb 2011
A brief connection with long-term effects
The advice and example of an attending during residency left a hospitalist with lessons that have lasted a lifetime.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/30/a-brief-connection-with-long-term-effects.htm
30 Nov 2022
Recognizing, preventing and treating delirium
If you remember only one thing about treating agitation and delirium in the hospital, it should be to avoid benzodiazepines, said Brian Huang, ACP Member, assistant professor of medicine in the division of hospital medicine at the University of California San Diego, during the hospital medicine precourse at Internal Medicine 2011.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/13/1.htm
13 Apr 2011
Making time for family
Collaboration with patients' families offers benefits.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/10/making-time-for-family.htm
15 Oct 2018