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Hospitals are mustering multidisciplinary teams to help physicians address this growing problem.
Hospitals are mustering multidisciplinary teams to help physicians address this growing problem.
You never know what will get a patient to open up.
An intervention to provide osteoporosis treatment during hospitalization and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry after discharge resulted in 58% of low-trauma hip fracture patients receiving anti-osteoporosis treatment within six months of admission, a Danish study found.
Older patients who had sedatives deprescribed during hospitalization were substantially less likely to experience any adverse event within 30 days, while those who had the drugs newly prescribed at discharge had double the risk for falls.
Asian, Black, Hispanic or Latino, and female patients get fewer arterial blood gas tests, even after adjustment for illness severity and hospital characteristics, a multicenter cohort study of critical care found.
The finding that 9.7% of patients with substance use disorder reported a hospitalization in the past year highlights the potential benefit of hospital-based screening and treatment programs on substance use, according to the authors of a new study.
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Nocturnists have become increasingly common in academic hospital medicine, but there's been surprisingly little study of their role, an author of a recent review explains.
Brainstorming with frontline staff helped one hospital provide quieter nights for its patients.
A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) highlighted the potential of novel diagnostic tools to offer advances in care.
A reminder to discuss treatment alternatives was associated with increased hospice use and less time to comfort-focused care but no changes in hospital length of stay (LOS) in a trial among ICU patients with chronic serious illness at 10 U.S. hospitals.
On average, hospital clinicians spent a median of 250.5 minutes per day in the electronic health record (EHR), and those in the 75th percentile of secure messaging volume spent 25.5 more minutes per day in the EHR compared to those in the 25th percentile.
Patients who have been treated for takotsubo syndrome are at higher risk of subsequent hospitalization, especially for cardiovascular conditions but also for stroke, gastrointestinal, and neurological conditions, a retrospective Scottish study found.
Preoperative assessment can involve an increasingly long list of medical devices. Learn what to do with them.
An anesthesiologist weighs in on whether to give carbohydrates before surgery and gabapentin after.