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Prompting during rounds decreases lab utilization in patients nearing discharge

Author:: MD

Publish date: June 26, 2018

Does prompting hospitalists during interdisciplinary rounds to discontinue lab orders on patients nearing discharge result in a decrease in lab tes...

Article

Strategies to Improve Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance in Veterans With Hepatitis B Infection (FULL)

Author:: MD

Publish date: June 23, 2018

Attitudes of patients as well as infectious disease, gastroenterology, and primary care providers need to be addressed to improve surveillance rate...

Opinion

Sharpen your ax

Author:: MD

Publish date: June 18, 2018

Once I knocked away the cobwebs, my confidence came back, and things went smooth as silk.

Article

Heart Transplantation Outcomes in Patients With Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Potential Impact of Newer Antiviral Treatments After Transplantation (FULL)

Author:: MD

Publish date: June 3, 2018

This study found significant improvements in heart transplant outcomes and survival in patients with hepatitis C virus.

News

The hospitalist as intensivist

Author:: MD

Publish date: May 21, 2018

What roles, training, and support do hospitalists have and perceive in the intensive care unit?

News

Guidelines to optimize treatment of reduced ejection fraction heart failure

Author:: MD

Publish date: May 18, 2018

What guidance is there for clinical care of complex heart failure patients?

Article

Emergency Imaging: Femoral Pseudoaneurysm

Author:: MD

Publish date: May 14, 2018

An 84-year-old man presented for evaluation of an increasingly swollen mass on his left groin.

News

Don’t delay hip-fracture surgery

Author:: MD

Publish date: April 26, 2018

What is the association of wait time and 30-day mortality in patients undergoing hip-fracture surgery?

News

Lower risk of ICH with dabigatran as compared to warfarin in atrial fibrillation

Author:: MD

Publish date: April 26, 2018

Is dabigatran superior to warfarin with regards to the risk of intracranial hemorrhage and myocardial infarction in patients with atrial fibrillati...

News

Providers’ prior imaging patterns and ownership of equipment are strong predictors of low-value imaging

Author:: MD

Publish date: April 19, 2018

Is there evidence that ownership of imaging equipment, prior ordering history, and ordering behavior in other clinical scenarios are associated wit...

News

High 5-year mortality in patients admitted with heart failure regardless of ejection fraction

Author:: MD

Publish date: April 18, 2018

Are there differences in 5-year outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (ejection fraction [EF], grea...

News

Use procalcitonin-guided algorithms to guide antibiotic therapy for acute respiratory infections to improve patient outcomes

Author:: MD

Publish date: April 13, 2018

How does using procalcitonin levels for adults with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) affect patient outcomes?

Audio

Myelodysplastic syndromes: etiologies, evaluation, and therapy

Author:: MD

Publish date: April 12, 2018

News

Delaying lumbar punctures for a head CT may result in increased mortality in acute bacterial meningitis

Author:: MD

Publish date: April 10, 2018

Can we safely perform lumbar punctures (LP) without neuroimaging in patients with acute bacterial meningitis (ABM)?

Article

Neuromodulation for Treatment-Refractory PTSD (FULL)

Author:: MD

Publish date: March 11, 2018

Deep brain stimulation has been successful in treating Parkinson disease and essential tremor and is now reducing PTSD symptoms in the first patien...