Search results for "Addiction"
New score predicts sepsis survivors' risk of unplanned rehospitalization or death in first year after discharge
The validated score, which uses eight risk factors, may help inform prognosis discussions, trial design, and follow-up care of adult patients surviving to hospital discharge after a critical care unit admission for sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/23/2.htm
23 Sep 2020
August 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/08/
About 70% of recent U.S. health data breaches compromised sensitive demographic, financial information
While the majority of breaches compromised information that could lead to identity theft, only 2% of breaches, which affected 2.4 million patients, compromised sensitive medical information.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/25/2.htm
25 Sep 2019
October 4, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/04/
Calls to poison control centers for gabapentin, baclofen increased in recent years
The increase in exposures to and misuse of these medications in the U.S. may represent an unintended consequence of recent reductions in opioid prescribing for pain management, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/12/11/3.htm
11 Dec 2019
November 15, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/15/
Data breaches, infective endocarditis
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/in-the-news.htm
15 Mar 2020
Recommendations offered for medical centers on managing patient bias
Many medical centers lack an organizational approach for addressing inappropriate or demeaning patient conduct toward clinicians based on their social identity, according to a recent article.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/15/6.htm
15 Jul 2020
Drug dependence and abuse
For coding purposes, the term “addiction” is not used, but is treated as synonymous with “dependence.”.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/coding.htm
15 Dec 2010
Bleeding in year after ACS significantly associated with mortality
A new analysis of four trials that had compared antithrombotic strategies for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) found similar mortality risk from bleeding whether or not patients had undergone percutaneous coronary intervention.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/08/4.htm
8 Jul 2020