Search results for "Acute MI"
CMS quality demo pays dividends for hospitals, but not always financially
Results from the first three years of the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) suggest that while bonuses were something to shoot for, they weren't the primary motivators for most participants. Instead, some hospitals viewed their participation as an opportunity to implement a tracking system, identify areas for improvement and see how they stacked up against other hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/cover-story.htm
15 Sep 2007
Think before you stick
Research shows a clear association between diagnostic phlebotomy and hospital-acquired anemia in some patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/01/coverstory.htm
15 Jan 2012
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ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME: A CARDIAC CONUNDRUMBy Richard Pinson, MD, FACP. diagnosed when there is no biomarker release based on 2 samplescollected at least 6 hours apart. ... NSTEMI—even ifcharacterized as mild or “early”—is classified as an acute MI, amore serious and complex diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/01/acph-201401-coding_t1.pdf
19 Dec 2013
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to discontinue them, and if the patient is not yet prescribedthese medications, once their acute decompensation is treated,an attempt should be made to prescribe these medications priorto discharge. ... The heart failure world is a few decades behindthe acute MI/chest pain world.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/acph-200811-heart_t1.pdf
29 Oct 2008
Studies on infectious diseases, neurology, and more
Isolation precautions may not always be of benefit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/recent-research.htm
15 Mar 2017
Patient age appears to impact hospital quality rankings for MI care
The median 30-day risk-standardized mortality rates for myocardial infarction (MI) were 9.4% for patients ages 65 years and older, 3.0% for those ages 18 to 64 years, and 6.2% when both age groups were combined.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/09/27/1.htm
27 Sep 2017
Interns' days, patients' hands
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/in-the-news.htm
15 Sep 2019
Cardiac troponin test may not safely rule out inducible myocardial ischemia in symptomatic patients with stable CAD, study finds
An accompanying editorial questioned whether coronary artery stenoses need to be diagnosed in stable coronary artery disease (CAD), since revascularization won't benefit such patients but may cause harm.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/01/08/1.htm
8 Jan 2020
Journal watch
Recent studies about acute MI reperfusion times, cardiac resynchronization therapy, and and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/journal.htm
15 Jan 2008
ACC and AHA update performance measures for STEMI and NSTEMI
The update has 17 performance measures, including four new ones, and seven quality measures, all of them new.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/09/27/2.htm
27 Sep 2017