Search results for "Hospital Medicine"
Boosters, convalescent plasma, long-term effects, and other COVID-19 news
Government officials announced that they plan to offer booster shots for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Convalescent plasma didn't improve outcomes for high-risk outpatients in a trial, and two studies reported long-term effects of hospitalization for COVID-19.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/24/1.htm
24 Aug 2021
Racism in the record?
Two authors discuss their recent study finding that Black patients were twice as likely as White patients to be described with negative words in their history and physical notes, particularly in inpatient records.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2022/04/racism-in-the-record.htm
1 Apr 2022
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://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/23/1.htm
23 Mar 2021
Prioritize PE in high-risk patients with syncope
Emergency department physicians should always do a thorough workup on patients who present with syncope, although imaging for these patients in the ED does not appear to be necessary.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/02/prioritize-pe-in-high-risk-patients-with-syncope.htm
1 Feb 2019
Who's tops at your hospital? Let us know this month!
ACP Hospitalist is seeking candidates for its sixth annual Top Hospitalists issue in November, which will feature the best and brightest in hospital medicine. Let us know what your colleagues have accomplished in 2013.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/09/9.htm
9 Jul 2013
Who's tops at your hospital?
ACP Hospitalist is seeking candidates for its fifth annual Top Hospitalists issue in November, which will feature the best and brightest in hospital medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/06/19/11.htm
19 Jun 2012
The May issue of ACP Hospitalist is online
The latest issue of ACP Hospitalist is online and includes stories about ethics in hospital medicine, inpatient hypercalcemia, compassion fatigue and more.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/22/8.htm
22 May 2012
Issue covers highlights from Internal Medicine 2010
ACP Internist digests events at Internal Medicine 2010, and garners an award for the year for general excellence.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/06/editors.htm
1 Jun 2010
Nominees named for College Officer and Regent positions
The Governance Committee of the American College of Physicians places in nomination its candidates.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/11/regents.htm
1 Nov 2013
Resource use, outcomes of hospitalization may be associated with care continuity
Patients were more likely to be discharged home if they were cared for by their primary care physician versus by a hospitalist, while patients cared for by other generalists were less likely to be discharged home than patients cared for by hospitalists.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/11/21/4.htm
21 Nov 2017