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Physicians and EHR time
December 20, 2016
Clinical question: How much time do ambulatory-care physicians spend on electronic health records (EHRs)?
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Idle intravenous catheters are associated with preventable complications
December 15, 2016
Intravenous catheters are common and necessary for inpatient care, but peripheral – and especially central venous – catheters are associated with increased risk for local and systemic complications.
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Hospitalists See Benefit from Working with ‘Surgicalists’
December 7, 2016
The collaboration is widely supported by hospitalists because it brings several advantages, mainly a greater availability of the surgeon for consult.
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Selected elderly trauma patients do well in non–ICU wards
December 7, 2016
CORONADO, CALIF. – When elderly patients are appropriately triaged, they can be selectively admitted to non–intensive care wards with acceptable outcomes, results from a single-center study showed.
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First-in-kind study parsed risks of central lines in children
December 5, 2016
SAN DIEGO - Rising rates of pediatric venous thromboembolism in the United States underscore the need to carefully weigh the risks and benefits of placing central lines.
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Observational hospital stays for HF linked to worse outcomes
December 5, 2016
NEW ORLEANS – Heart failure patients admitted as inpatients had significantly better outcomes than those admitted for an observational stay.
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Increased death rate with platelets for aspirin/clopidogrel GI bleed
November 28, 2016
Patients with normal platelet counts who have a GI bleed while on antiplatelets were almost six times more likely to die in the hospital if they had a platelet transfusion, in a retrospective cohort study from the Yale University.
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Hospital factors play key role in readmission risk after surgery
November 28, 2016
CORONADO, CALIF. – Variation in readmission risk across hospitals following certain surgical procedures is more attributable to hospital factors than to patient characteristics, results from a large analysis demonstrated.
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Updated ACCP Guideline for Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease
November 28, 2016
What hospitalists need to know about the 2016 ACCP Guideline update
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Acute kidney injury common in children, young adults in ICU
November 18, 2016
Acute kidney injury is common in children and young adults admitted to ICU.
