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Oral iron of no benefit in heart failure with iron deficiency
May 16, 2017
High-dose oral iron therapy doesn’t improve exercise capacity in the estimated 50% of patients with symptomatic heart failure who also have iron deficiency, according to a report published online May 16 in JAMA.Iron deficiency in patients with HF, regardless of their hemoglobin status, is ...
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When one patient decompensates, others on the ward may follow
May 12, 2017
How does the clinical decompensation of a ward patient affect the likelihood of another patient’s decompensation?
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Using shock index in the ED to predict hospital admission and inpatient mortality
May 9, 2017
Can shock index (SI) in the ED predict the likelihood for hospital admission and inpatient mortality?
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Hospital infections top WHO’s list of priority pathogens
April 25, 2017
WHO is urging governments to focus antibiotic research efforts on a list of urgent bacterial threats, topped by several increasingly powerful superbugs.
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Patient-to-intensivist ratios can influence patient mortality
April 19, 2017
Is there variation in patient-to-intensivist ratios (PIR) across ICUs, and does that ratio affect hospital mortality?
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Procalcitonin guidance improves antibiotic stewardship
April 13, 2017
Use of the procalcitonin assay has been shown to reduce antibiotic utilization without an increase in adverse outcomes.
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Sneak Peak: The Hospital Leader Blog
April 3, 2017
There is no doubt transparency is important, and patients should be informed when hospitalized as outpatients instead of as inpatients. But the wisdom of the federal NOTICE Act essentially stops there.
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When one patient decompensates, others on the ward may follow
March 30, 2017
Clinical question: How does the clinical decompensation of a ward patient affect the likelihood of another patient’s decompensation?
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Using shock index in the ED to predict hospital admission and inpatient mortality
March 24, 2017
CLINICAL QUESTION: Can shock index (SI) in the ED predict the likelihood for hospital admission and inpatient mortality?
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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.
