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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?
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Cost transparency fails to affect high-cost medication utilization rates
January 22, 2018
Clinical question: Does cost messaging at the time of ordering reduce prescriber use of high-cost medications?
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NSAIDs reduce spinal pain but are not “clinically important”
January 19, 2018
Are nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs effective at reducing neck and low back pain?
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Risk-stratification tool predicts severe hypoglycemia
January 18, 2018
Can a clinical tool be developed to predict severe hypoglycemia in at-risk patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)?
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Hospitalist movers and shakers – Jan. 2018
January 18, 2018
Take note of some recent career transitions in the hospital medicine community.
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Brief preoperative score predicts postoperative complications in the elderly
January 17, 2018
Can a geriatric assessment scale, performed by nonphysician surgical staff, be used to predict postoperative complications in the elderly?
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U.S. influenza activity widespread to start 2018
January 16, 2018
In one way at least, this flu season is already worse than 2016-2017.
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Bariatric surgery comes with some risk of complications
January 16, 2018
A long-term follow-up study of bariatric surgery patients revealed complication risks.
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MedPAC recommends scrapping MIPS, gets pushback from doctors
January 16, 2018
While MIPS is not perfect, doctors are not likely to be pleased by having to shift midstream.
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Triple therapy in question
January 16, 2018
Clinical question: In patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is dabigatran plus a P2Y12 inhibitor safer than, and as efficacious as, triple therapy with warfarin?
