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Hospital Medicine 2018
Explore our coverage of Hospital Medicine 2018, including burnout, pressure ulcers, pain management, COPD, and technological advances.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jun 2018
Model finds 14 COPD symptoms that identify exacerbations
Fourteen symptoms, which can be described in patients' daily diaries, provide a new model for quantifying exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/06/15/3.htm
15 Jun 2011
December 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/
In combination with LABA, LAMA may beat corticosteroid for COPD exacerbations
The exacerbation rate was 11% lower in patients randomized to indacaterol–glycopyrronium than those on salmeterol–fluticasone, the industry-funded study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/05/25/1.htm
25 May 2016
April 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/
Five-day steroid course effective for acute COPD exacerbations
For inpatients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), five days of glucocorticoids is as effective as 14 days at preventing re-exacerbations at six months, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/06/05/3.htm
5 Jun 2013
MKSAP quiz on pulmonology
These cases and commentary, which address pulmonology, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/ty.htm
15 Mar 2013
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about treating COPD, avoiding gadolinium MRIs, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/journal-watch.htm
15 Apr 2007
Nonrespiratory causes of death becoming more common in oxygen-dependent COPD
Mortality rates are decreasing for respiratory disease and increasing for nonrespiratory causes in patients receiving long-term oxygen therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/01/26/4.htm
26 Jan 2011
Almost half of veterans hospitalized for COPD didn't get spirometry within a year
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were three times as likely to undergo spirometry in the year before or after hospitalization if they had a pulmonary clinic visit, according to Veterans Health Administration data.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/26/almost-half-of-veterans-hospitalized-for-copd-didnt-get-spirometry-within-a-year.htm
26 Oct 2022