Search results for "Oncology"
The healing arts
Options can range from CD players in patient rooms to visits from certified art and music therapists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/02/arts.htm
15 Feb 2012
Mortality of patients with cancer and septic shock slightly lower with liberal transfusions
The results went in the opposite direction of the study's initial hypothesis, are counter to existing guidelines, and should be considered of limited external generalizability, the study authors cautioned.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/08/1.htm
8 Mar 2017
Rating the rankings: How ‘top hospital’ lists define quality
It's the mid-1980s. You're an accountant, not a doctor, and you've just been told that your mother has a rare type of cancer. You respect and trust her physician-but this is your mother, and she needs serious medicine. How do you find the very best possible treatment?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/top-hosp.htm
15 Apr 2007
CDC issues recommendations for prescribing opioids for chronic pain
CDC opioid recommendations, resuscitation timing, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/in-the-news.htm
15 Jun 2016
Score can predict readmission risk
A prediction score can identify before discharge the likelihood of a potentially avoidable 30-day readmission, a new study suggests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/03/1.htm
3 Apr 2013
Family medicine
Before I even started medical school, friends and family were soliciting medical advice. How should medical students handle such requests?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/11/student.htm
15 Nov 2010
New COVID-19 boosters, biosimilar for MS OK’ed
The FDA approved updated COVID-19 vaccines and the first-ever biosimilar for multiple sclerosis (MS), among other recent actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/04/new-covid-19-boosters-biosimilar-for-ms-oked.htm
4 Oct 2023
Letter from the Editor
Some of this issue's topics include working with ##ldquo;good catch##rdquo; programs, assessing patients' decision-making capacity, and improving readmission rates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/lfe.htm
15 Dec 2011
A digestible problem
A young physician remembers army surgeon Dr. William Beaumont, his patient Alexis St. Martin, and the study of gastric secretions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/04/free/newmans-notions-a-digestible-problem.htm
15 Apr 2018
Updated guidelines on preventing bloodstream infections released
Updated guidelines for preventing intravascular catheter-related infections were jointly released last week by more than a dozen governmental agencies and professional organizations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/20/1.htm
20 Apr 2011