In the News
Hospice referral often not timely in hemodialysis patients, study finds
The median length of hospice stay for Medicare patients receiving maintenance dialysis near the end of life was five days, and 41.5% received hospice services for three or fewer days.
Empirical colistin didn't improve survival in resistant, gram-negative infections
These findings may reflect the doubtful efficacy of the available agents against carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria and support restrictions on the empirical use of colistin, according to the study authors.
New frailty risk score for hospitals developed using ICD-10 codes
The score has low discriminative ability at the individual level but provides hospital-level data about the prevalence of frailty among inpatients.
Evidence lacking on efficacy of prescription drug monitoring programs
Recent articles on substance use highlighted the limitations of prescription drug monitoring programs, rise of synthetic opioids in overdose deaths, and risk of vitamin K-dependent antagonist coagulopathy from synthetic cannabinoids.
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