Hospital-Based Medicine

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Workplace dysfunction, concern about patient care among top complaints Mindfulness and confidence-building are not the solution to physician burnout — rather, an organizational shift to address workplace conditions is...