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Checklists to improve patient safety have mixed results
January 25, 2018
Checklists to improve patient safety have mixed resultsClinical question: Do checklists improve patient safety among hospitalized patients?Background: Systematic reviews of nonrandomized studies suggest checklists may reduce adverse events and medical errors. No study has systematically reviewed...
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Influenza: All that and MI too
January 24, 2018
Admissions for myocardial infarction spike after laboratory-confirmed flu infection.
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Persistent opioid use a risk after surgery in teens and young adults
January 24, 2018
Higher initial opioid requirements didn’t necessarily mean persistent opioid use later.
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Journal of Hospital Medicine – Jan. 2018
January 24, 2018
Read the latest from the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the premier publication for dissemination of research for the specialty of hospital medicine.
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Predicting MDR Gram-negative infection mortality risk
January 24, 2018
Several factors were predictive of mortality risk in hospitalized patients with multidrug resistant Gram-negative infections.
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Rural residents admitted for opioid overdoses increasingly are hospitalized in urban hospitals
January 24, 2018
Is there an association between rurality and trends and characteristics of hospitalizations for opioid overdose?
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SHM launches 2018 State of Hospital Medicine Survey
January 23, 2018
Biennial survey provides extensive insight into hospital medicine groups’ configuration and operations.
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Beware the COPD exacerbation
January 23, 2018
If a COPD patient has all the classic symptoms of an exacerbation, are there still other diagnoses to consider?
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PPIs, certain antibiotics increase risk of hospital onset C. difficile infection
January 23, 2018
Deprescribing acid suppression therapy coupled with antibiotic stewardship could greatly reduce the incidence of hospital-onset C. difficile infection.
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U.S. hospitalists estimate significant resources spent on defensive medicine
January 23, 2018
Clinical question: What percent of inpatient health care spending by hospitalists can be attributed to defensive medicine?
