Hospital-Based Medicine

Gender Linked With Outcomes in Acute Burn Injury Patients

Mar 23, 2021

“In high-income countries, men more often sustain burn injuries than women,” explains Lincoln M....

CDC Analysis Finds Faults with Antibiotic Use for Hospitalized Patients

Mar 23, 2021

Drug choice and treatment duration often wrong for CAP and UTI patients An analysis of medical record data from more than 1,500 patients hospitalized for community acquired pneumonia (CAP) or urinary tract infections (UTI) found...

Comparing Survival by RRT Modality in Patients With Severe Burns

Mar 16, 2021

Findings from numerous studies indicate that patients with burns who develop acute kidney injury...

Making the Case for Withholding Preoperative Prophylactic Antibiotics in Patients With Non-Severe Burns

Mar 9, 2021

Data indicate that overuse of antibiotics is a main driver of antibiotic resistance, with every...

Assessing Perioperative Multimodal Analgesia in Patients With Burns

Mar 3, 2021

Postoperative pain has been shown in prior research to be a major challenge for patients with...

Pharmacist-Led Intervention Fails to Reduce Drug-Related AEs Post-Hospital Discharge

Mar 3, 2021

Experts question whether results call for a change in tactics An intensive pharmacist-directed intervention designed to improve medication safety failed to reduce drug-related adverse event rates among patients...

Vitamin-Driven Therapy for Sepsis Again Disappoints

Feb 25, 2021

But VICTAS study was adjourned early after funding group pulled out A vitamin-based treatment failed to significantly boost ventilator- and vasopressor-free days within 30 days among critically ill patients with sepsis versus...

Medical Fiction: Ruth & the Stochastic Murder

Feb 8, 2021

The following is the first of a collection of short stories that are like “Final...

A Closer Look at Patterns in Prescription Opioid Use & Misuse Among Cancer Survivors

Feb 5, 2021

Cancer survivors report higher rates of prescription opioid use than those without the disease,...

Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring With Telemetry System Proves Beneficial to Hospitalized Patients With T2D

Jan 25, 2021

For a study published in Diabetes Care, Elias K. Spanakis, MD, and colleagues evaluated the use of...

Nutritional Support Lowers Mortality in Patients Hospitalized with Malnutrition

Jan 25, 2021

Also reduces 30-day readmission rates Hospitalized patients with malnutrition achieve a significant mortality benefit if they receive nutritional support, Swiss researchers found.Their study, published in JAMA Network Open,...

Communication Gap Between Hospitals and SNFs Affect Patient Care Transitions

Jan 19, 2021

Study finds shortcomings in completeness, timeliness, and usability of information Hospitals don’t appear to be very good at sharing information with skilled nursing facilities during patient transitions.As reported in an...

Press Ganey Scores Higher When Patients/Docs Share Race, Ethnicity

Nov 12, 2020

More diverse physician population needed to match growing diversity of society Although most patients give their physicians high marks on the Press Ganey (PG) Outpatient Medical Practice survey, racial and ethnic discordance...

Treatments with ICERs Over $100K-$150K May Not Be Cost Effective

Nov 5, 2020

Study highlights importance of cost-effectiveness thresholds in shaping U.S. healthcare policy to benefit all patients Treatments that have incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) greater than $100K to $150K per...

Feds Warn of Growing Cyberattacks on U.S. Hospitals

Nov 2, 2020

Ransomware hampers hospitals’ ability to treat patients Federal agencies warned that criminals are launching large scale ransomware attacks against the U.S. health care system, potentially hamstringing hospital information...

EDAC: A ’More Comprehensive Picture of Hospital Use’

Oct 14, 2020

Small and rural hospitals take less heat with measure of excess days in acute care A hospital performance metric that captures all encounters occurring within 30 days of discharge substantially changed performance rankings...

Covid-19 Worsens In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes

Sep 30, 2020

Findings highlight importance of goals-of-care discussions SARS-CoV-2 infection worsened survival rates for patients with cardiac arrest who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) while in the hospital, a case series...