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COVID-19 research looks at aspirin, disparities, long-term outcomes
Recent aspirin use may be associated with improved COVID-19 outcomes, and hospitals had widely differing mortality rates in April 2020. Half of discharged patients reported ongoing symptoms at four months, and most ICU patients showed evidence of impairments at one month, new studies found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/24/1.htm
24 Mar 2021
Women hospitalized for heart failure may have lower quality of life than men
Women and men with acute heart failure had similar clinical outcomes and risk of mortality and rehospitalization, but there were differences in therapy and women reported lower health-related quality of life, a retrospective analysis of a trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/3.htm
17 Mar 2021
Risk for death appears higher in STEMI patients without standard modifiable risk factors
Patients, especially women, who presented with ST-segment elevation (STEMI) and did not smoke or have hypertension, diabetes, or hypercholesterolemia had a significantly higher all-cause mortality rate than those with a risk factor in a retrospective Swedish study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/4.htm
17 Mar 2021
COVID-19 and obesity, AKI, DKA, antibiotics, symptom checkers, hospital prep
Acute kidney injury (AKI) and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) were worse with COVID-19, antibiotics were overused, and an online symptom checker didn't triage safely, but most hospitals had enough ICU beds and preprocedural COVID-19 testing showed that vaccinations reduced asymptomatic infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/1.htm
17 Mar 2021
Anemia, antibiotic overuse, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/recent-research.htm
15 Mar 2021
Weighing perioperative cardiac risk scores
Experts explain and compare the available tools, detailing which scores they prefer.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/weighing-perioperative-cardiac-risk-scores.htm
15 Mar 2021
A call to action: Align well-being and antiracism strategies
Physicians have a duty to challenge processes, policies, and procedures that stem from structural inequities.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/a-call-to-action-align-well-being-and-antiracism-strategies.htm
15 Mar 2021
Discrimination and sexual harassment commonly affect female academic hospitalists, survey finds
A survey study of 336 internal medicine hospitalists at 18 academic institutions in the U.S. found that women were more likely than men to report experiencing sexual harassment by patients, and nearly all women reported being mistaken by patients for nonphysician clinicians over their careers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/01/27/3.htm
27 Jan 2021
Diets, contrast injuries, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/recent-research.htm
15 Jan 2021
Study finds burnout even before the pandemic
Slightly over half of internists and trainees participating in a wellness program reported symptoms of burnout, while almost three-quarters reported career satisfaction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/qa-study-finds-burnout-even-before-the-pandemic.htm
15 Jan 2021