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Inpatient Management of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
July 1, 2024
This session was a high-yield overview of the management of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) presented by Dr. South, an addiction medicine physician who treats patients with...
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Solving Major Problems: Major Bleeding and Major Surgery for Patients on Anticoagulants
July 1, 2024
This interactive session posed real-life scenarios for hospitalists who frequently deal with difficult anticoagulation questions and grounded it all with the evidence. The first case discussed was...
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Update on Clinical Guidelines
July 1, 2024
In a packed room, Dr. O’Leary, chief of the division of hospital medicine, associate chair for quality in the department of medicine, and vice president of quality for Northwestern Memorial...
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Syncope: Things We Do for No Reason & Things We Do for Reason
July 1, 2024
Syncope is broadly classified into reflex-mediated (60% to 70%), orthostatic (10%), and cardiac (10% to 20%). Cerebrovascular causes were removed from American and European guidelines (or listed as a...
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Is 7 Really the Magic Number for RBC Transfusion?
May 1, 2024
Over the past decade, there has been widespread adoption of restrictive red blood cell (RBC) transfusion guidelines.1,2 As a result, RBC transfusions have significantly decreased per...
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Coding Corner: A Critical Opportunity
April 1, 2024
A 17-year-old with a history of major depressive disorder who is new to the hospitalist service is being transferred out of the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) after an intentional Benadryl...
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Interruptions: Bad for Hospitalists and Their Patients
April 1, 2024
More than 10 years ago this magazine published an article by Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM, a pioneer of hospital medicine and co-founder of the Society of Hospital Medicine, warning of the hazards of...
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How Can Hospitalists Help Reduce Harmful In-hospital Patient Falls?
March 1, 2024
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...
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Demystifying Performance Measures for Hospitalists: VTE Prophylaxis
March 1, 2024
As venous thromboembolism (VTE) became an increasingly recognized cause of death in hospitalized patients, prevention became a high priority for the health care system.1,2 Starting in 2005, the Joint...
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Adult Hospitalizations from Immigration-detention Facilities
February 1, 2024
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...