Search results for "Care settings"
Hospitals fight back against violence
Hospitals and clinicians are increasingly recognizing workplace violence in the hospital as a problem and employing strategies to deal with it, or better yet, stop it before it happens.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/12/hospitals-fight-back-against-violence.htm
15 Dec 2017
Procalcitonin testing reduced antibiotic use and mortality in acute respiratory infections
Results of the meta-analysis suggest that widespread implementation of procalcitonin protocols might not only improve antibiotic management and patient outcomes but also help to combat the threat of antibiotic resistance, the authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/25/1.htm
25 Oct 2017
Hospitalist involvement needed to treat opioid epidemic
Despite rising admissions related to opioid use disorder, few hospitalists are obtaining the expertise to prescribe medications for addiction. Experts say they should.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/hospitalist-treat-opioid-epidemic.htm
15 Oct 2017
Coping with copy-paste
A hospitalist looks at how much of the typical electronic health record has been copied and pasted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/09/qa-copy-paste.htm
15 Sep 2017
Defeating C. diff
While Clostridium difficile remains a stubborn infection, new drugs and research findings suggest some ways to more effectively combat it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/defeating-c-diff.htm
15 Jul 2017
Yeast of burden
Five things to know about Candida auris.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/candida-auris.htm
15 Mar 2017
Vancomycin may have mortality benefit over metronidazole for patients with severe C. difficile, study finds
The retrospective study found no statistically or clinically significant differences in recurrence rates between patients receiving vancomycin and metronidazole regardless of the severity of Clostridium difficile infection.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/02/15/1.htm
15 Feb 2017
Warning about HBV reactivation with HCV drugs
Details on the latest recalls, warnings, and approvals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/fda.htm
15 Dec 2016
Higher-intensity care setting may not be associated with early survival in acute heart failure patients
Survival was higher at 1 year among those initially admitted to the ICU versus the wards, but no survival difference was seen between low-risk patients admitted to the wards versus discharged from the ED, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/03/3.htm
3 Aug 2016
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about tackling bias and avoiding turf.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/lte.htm
15 Apr 2016