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Limited utility in using NT-proBNP rather than functional capacity to estimate risk of perioperative MACE
June 3, 2024
Clinical question: Does adding N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) to clinical risk scores provide a better estimate of the risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) among...
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Semaglutide reduces major adverse cardiovascular events by 20% in patients with cardiovascular disease
June 3, 2024
Clinical question: Does semaglutide reduce cardiovascular events in non-diabetics with cardiovascular disease? Background: While glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists reduce cardiovascular events...
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Comparing in-hospital adverse events in elderly postoperative delirium patients: haloperidol versus atypical antipsychotics
June 3, 2024
Clinical question: Are in-hospital adverse events worse in post-operative delirium patients treated with haloperidol compared to atypical antipsychotics? Background: Post-operative delirium is...
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Hydrocortisone reduces mortality in severe CAP
June 3, 2024
Clinical question: Does early hydrocortisone therapy reduce mortality among patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) requiring admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) or intermediate...
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SHM 2024 Awards of Excellence and Junior Investigator Award
June 3, 2024
SHM’s Awards of Excellence Program honors members who’ve made exceptional contributions to hospital medicine in various categories. Please join The Hospitalist and SHM in congratulating the 2024...
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Celebrating the 2023 Chapter Excellence Status Awards Recipients
June 3, 2024
Celebrating the 2023 Chapter Excellence Status Awards Recipients SHM has five international and 65 U.S. chapters, extending SHM’s reach and providing networking and information at the local level....
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Aiming for Equitable Care for Transgender Patients
June 3, 2024
With transgender care under debate among politicians and state laws around the U.S., hospitalists find they must take a leading role in making transgender patients feel welcome and helping them...
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Facing the Inevitable: Cyberattacks in Healthcare
June 3, 2024
Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, FAMIA, SFHM has been a hospitalist for 20 years, and a board-certified clinical informatician for the last eight years. But the cyberattack on UnitedHealthcare unit...
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Chapter Spotlight: Pee Dee
June 3, 2024
COVID-19 was brutal on SHM chapters nationwide, immediately forcing events to teleconference technology and eliminating the in-person networking and education that has become a staple of the...
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What is the Best Initial Management of a Pressure Injury?
June 3, 2024
Case A 74-year-old frail man with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease is admitted for severe community-acquired pneumonia. On hospital day four, the nurse reports a new...