Predicting Long-Term Complications After Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Disease
Sepsis is the most commonly identified risk factor for acute kidney injury (AKI), according to...
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Understanding Captain of the Ship & How it Applies to All Physicians
The term “captain of the ship” is one of the most misunderstood in medical malpractice law. Most...
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Diabetes & Infection-Related Hospitalization
“Diabetes is widely thought to increase susceptibility to infection by impairing neutrophil...
Read MoreManaging Your Online Reputation
The secret to offset a negative review is to balance it out with a five-star review. If you only have one review, and it’s a negative one, there’s not much you can do about it. A better approach might be to ask 30 patients who...
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Can Becoming a Physician Social Media Influencer Take Your Career to the Next Level?
Social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, get billions of daily users...
Read MoreStatins Offer No Benefit for Patients with COVID-19
For hospitalized patients with COVID-19, statins do not offer benefits, and may even increase the risk for severe disease, according to a study published in PLOS One. Samuel K. Ayeh, MBChB, MPH, and colleagues examined the...
Read MoreApp Identifies Delirium in Hospitalized Adults
An app-directed protocol was found to be feasible, brief, and accurate for diagnosing delirium among inpatients, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Edward R. Marcantonio, MD, and colleagues tested a...
Read MorePhotographing Patients
As phones turned into cameras, HIPAA created national standards to protect a patient’s sensitive health information, including their image, from being disclosed without consent. We can capture anything easily…but are we allowed...
Read MoreBNT162b2 Effectively Prevents Pediatric COVID-19 Hospitalization
For children and adolescents aged 12-18, two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (BNT162b2) are highly effective for preventing COVID-19 hospitalization, according to research published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report....
Read MoreAvoid Intensification of Diabetes Meds at Discharge in Older Adults
For older adults with diabetes hospitalized for common medical conditions, discharge with intensified diabetes medications increases the short-term risk for severe hypoglycemia but does not reduce severe hyperglycemia events or...
Read MorePW PODCAST: The Evolution of CME
During a recent PW Podcast, Rachel Giles, MD, from Medicom Medical Publishers, spoke with Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)...
Read MoreOlder Adults Hospitalization For Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions
“Acute illnesses requiring hospitalization serve as sentinel events, with many older adults requiring assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) upon discharge,” explains Cameron J. Gettel, MD, MHS. “Loss of independence...
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mRNA-1273 Continues to Be Efficacious at Five Months
At more than 5 months, the mRNA-1273 vaccine continues to be efficacious for preventing COVID-19...
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WHO Issues Guidance for Use of Casirivimab-Imdevimab in COVID-19
Use of two recombinant human monoclonal antibodies that bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein,...
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PW TWEETCHAT SERIES
We recently hosted a live discussion on Twitter (a TweetChat) as part of the #PWChat series,...
Read MoreOur Healthcare System May Be Failing, But It Isn’t Broken
I ’ve stood in front of conferences before and made my case: Our healthcare system is per- fect. “A perfect system? Ours?” I’ll hear people murmuring, “He’s a little bit crazy.” For decades, critics of the US healthcare system...
Read MoreCVT Incidence, Case-Fatality Rates Examined
Cerebral vein thrombosis (CVT) incidence was found to be comparable to that registered in population-based studies reported after 2000, according to a large epidemiological study published in Stroke. Investigators identified...
Read MoreIdentifying Sickest Patients With Sepsis During Triage
To predict poor outcomes among patients with susceptible sepsis during triage, institution priorities should drive score selection, balancing sensitivity and specificity, when determining risk stratification, according to a...
Read MoreOur Healthcare System May Be Failing, But It Isn’t Broken
When we make the mistake of talking about fixing our broken system, we tend to speak of driving costs down or of achieving greater efficiencies by stressing preventive care. There’s nothing wrong with efficiencies and...
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