Gender Linked With Outcomes in Acute Burn Injury Patients
“In high-income countries, men more often sustain burn injuries than women,” explains Lincoln M....
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Hospital-Based Medicine
CDC Analysis Finds Faults with Antibiotic Use for Hospitalized Patients
Drug choice and treatment duration often wrong for CAP and UTI patients An analysis of medical...
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Comparing Survival by RRT Modality in Patients With Severe Burns
Findings from numerous studies indicate that patients with burns who develop acute kidney injury...
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Making the Case for Withholding Preoperative Prophylactic Antibiotics in Patients With Non-Severe Burns
Data indicate that overuse of antibiotics is a main driver of antibiotic resistance, with every...
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Assessing Perioperative Multimodal Analgesia in Patients With Burns
Postoperative pain has been shown in prior research to be a major challenge for patients with...
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Pharmacist-Led Intervention Fails to Reduce Drug-Related AEs Post-Hospital Discharge
Experts question whether results call for a change in tactics An intensive pharmacist-directed...
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Vitamin-Driven Therapy for Sepsis Again Disappoints
But VICTAS study was adjourned early after funding group pulled out A vitamin-based treatment...
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Medical Fiction: Ruth & the Stochastic Murder
The following is the first of a collection of short stories that are like “Final...
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A Closer Look at Patterns in Prescription Opioid Use & Misuse Among Cancer Survivors
Cancer survivors report higher rates of prescription opioid use than those without the disease,...
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Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring With Telemetry System Proves Beneficial to Hospitalized Patients With T2D
For a study published in Diabetes Care, Elias K. Spanakis, MD, and colleagues evaluated the use of...
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Nutritional Support Lowers Mortality in Patients Hospitalized with Malnutrition
Also reduces 30-day readmission rates Hospitalized patients with malnutrition achieve a...
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Communication Gap Between Hospitals and SNFs Affect Patient Care Transitions
Study finds shortcomings in completeness, timeliness, and usability of information Hospitals...
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Press Ganey Scores Higher When Patients/Docs Share Race, Ethnicity
More diverse physician population needed to match growing diversity of society Although most...
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Treatments with ICERs Over $100K-$150K May Not Be Cost Effective
Study highlights importance of cost-effectiveness thresholds in shaping U.S. healthcare policy to...
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Feds Warn of Growing Cyberattacks on U.S. Hospitals
Ransomware hampers hospitals’ ability to treat patients Federal agencies warned that...
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EDAC: A ’More Comprehensive Picture of Hospital Use’
Small and rural hospitals take less heat with measure of excess days in acute care A hospital...
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Covid-19 Worsens In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
Findings highlight importance of goals-of-care discussions SARS-CoV-2 infection worsened survival...
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A Swedish Physician Reacts to Sweden’s COVID-19 Response
As I got up to leave the conference room, I was nauseated. I was on an international meeting for...
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Considering Lung Transplant Frailty
The goal of lung transplantation is to improve quality of life (QOL) and extend survival for...
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Antibiotics At the End-of-Life: Helping or Harming?
The following was originally posted by Kelly Cawcutt, MD, to the University of Nebraska Medical...
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