Portion of hospitals that had palliative-care teams in 2010, according to the latest tally from the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City (www.capc.org), an increase of 148.5% from 2000. Hospitals of 300-plus beds are more likely to have a palliative-care team than those with fewer than 300 beds (87.9% vs. 56.5%).
Related Articles
How Can Hospitalists Help Reduce Harmful In-hospital Patient Falls?
November 2, 2012
An estimated 700,000 to 1,000,000 falls occur in hospitalized patients in this country every year, with one-quarter to one-third of the falls leading to injuries. At least 10% of those are serious...
Hospitalists Play a Leading Role in Responding to Mass-Casualty Incidents
November 2, 2012
Mass shootings. Bioterror attacks. Natural disasters. Wars. There’s seemingly no shortage of potential mass-casualty incidents (MCIs) that can lead health care professionals, including...
Adult Hospitalizations from Immigration-detention Facilities
November 2, 2012
Dr. Woodruff Clinical question: What are the causes of hospitalizations from immigration-detention facilities and what is their relative morbidity? Background: Over the last three decades, an...
Clinical Update: RSV Vaccines for Adults
November 2, 2012
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common seasonal virus that can cause serious illness in children and adults alike. It was first isolated in a group of chimpanzees in 1956 and was originally...