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Hospital expansion trend brings challenges, opportunities
In a bid to improve profitability and extend their reach into underserved areas, many urban hospitals are looking to grow outside city limits.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/03/hosp-ex.htm
15 Mar 2007
Highlights from ACP Journal Club
MODS assay better at detecting TB but poses challenges in developing countries, et al.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/03/highlight-jc.htm
15 Mar 2007
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
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
More community hospitals performing cutting-edge research
As the role of hospitalists evolves at medical facilities around the country, some community hospital physicians are adding a new line to their job descriptions: medical researcher.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/cutting-edge.htm
15 May 2007
Eliminating drug errors
A few years ago, a patient taking a long-lasting brand-name beta-blocker got switched to the generic short-acting medication when admitted to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa. At discharge, the medication instructions said, “Take all home meds.”.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/drug-errors.htm
15 May 2007
Aiming for zero
Five years ago, when a surgeon told staff at Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pa., that a central line infection (CLI) could contribute to a patient's death, it made them even more determined to find and resolve the problems—both clinical and cultural—that stood in the way of preventing infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/aim-zero.htm
15 Jun 2007
Avian flu prompts pandemic planning but system is far from ready
Avian flu is still more of a threat than a reality—but if a pandemic does hit, the U.S. health care system is far from prepared, according to an infectious diseases expert who spoke at Internal Medicine 2007 in April.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/avian-flu.htm
15 Jun 2007
MKSAP primer: Mechanical ventilation
Ventilatory failure refers to the inability of the respiratory system to sustain its ventilatory function.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/mksap-primer.htm
15 Jun 2007
Wiping out surgical site infections
Protocols and preparation are key.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/key.htm
15 Aug 2007