Search results for "Diagnostic testing"
Reducing unnecessary testing
Efforts to test more judiciously represent a dramatic shift in the way physicians use tests to aid diagnosis and guide treatment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/coverstory.htm
15 Jul 2011
MKSAP quiz on chest pain
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on chest pain.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/mksap-quiz-on-chest-pain.htm
15 Feb 2020
CDC targets 5 parasitic infections
The CDC has targeted 5 neglected parasitic infections in the United States as priorities for public health action: Chagas disease, cysticercosis, toxocariasis, toxoplasmosis, and trichomoniasis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/05/21/4.htm
21 May 2014
New rules for diagnosis
Experts propose diagnostic competencies and principles.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/new-rules-for-diagnosis.htm
15 Jan 2019
Don't get psyched out!
An internist and psychiatrist offers tips on separating somatization from deception.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/dont-get-psyched-out.htm
15 May 2019
Fighting resistance in the ICU
Ongoing growth in antibiotic resistance has highlighted both the importance and the challenge of frontline stewardship.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/fighting-resistance-in-the-icu.htm
15 Mar 2019
Recent Research
Criteria for cardiac catheterization, subclinical hyperthyroidism and CHD risk, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/09/rr.htm
15 Sep 2012
Postop deaths, sepsis projects
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/recent-research.htm
15 Feb 2020
acp-hosp0000
and foremost, clinical, based on. history and physical examination. supplemented by diagnostic testing. ... of Cardiology (ACC)recommends the diagnostic term “heart failure” now be used inpreference to “congestive heart failure (CHF).”.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/06/acph-201406-coding_t1.pdf
6 Jun 2014
MKSAP quiz on mechanical ventilation
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on mechanical ventilation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/mksap-quiz-on-mechanical-ventilation.htm
15 May 2020