Search results for "Atrial Fibrillation"
Dialogue: Communication at discharge
Lee W. Roof, ACP Member, a primary care internist, and Dawn Brezina, ACP Member, a hospitalist, offer their perspectives on how hospitalists and PCPs can improve communication during handoffs at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/improve-comm.htm
15 Oct 2007
Test yourself: Heart failure in the elderly
A 73-year-old man is hospitalized for shortness of breath, chest heaviness and weight gain... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/test.htm
15 Nov 2007
MKSAP primer: Heart failure
Initial diagnostic testing of the patient with heart failure includes obtaining an electrocardiogram, a chest radiograph, and an echocardiogram, as well as blood chemistry evaluation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/mksap.htm
15 Nov 2007
Journal watch
Recent studies about medical trainee errors, chlorhexidine intervention, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/journal.htm
15 Dec 2007
Eliminating disparities in stroke outcomes
Recent studies have found that stroke patients admitted to the hospital at night and on the weekends are more likely to die than those admitted on weekdays. Why does mortality vary at different times of the day and week, and how can hospitals change their procedures to help minimize this difference?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/cover.htm
15 Jun 2008
Test yourself: Stroke
Stroke.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/test.htm
15 Jun 2008
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about antipsychotic use in the elderly, heart failure hospitalizations, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/journal.htm
15 Jul 2008
Update in hospital medicine highlights sepsis, community-acquired pneumonia
New research could help guide treatment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/update.htm
15 Jul 2008
acp-hosp0809.qxd
anticoagulant in stroke with atrial fibrillation,. tPA considered in stroke,. dysphagia screen in stroke,.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/09/acph-200809-heart_t1.pdf
5 Sep 2008
Measure of the month
Measure of the month: Heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/09/heart.htm
15 Sep 2008