Electronic Communication With Patients
Throughout healthcare, there has been a recent push for electronic communications to be used more...
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Pulmonology/Critical Care
Clinician Views on Important Emergency Matters
Emergency medicine (EM) physicians have a heightened duty to advocate for the interests of their...
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Stop Leaving Women’s Health to Chance
Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to...
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Surgical Readmissions and Quality of Care
Throughout the United States, reducing the rates of hospital readmissions has become a top...
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Reality Check: Hospital Patient Safety Scores
Imagine you are sick and live in the upper Manhattan section of New York City. Your doctor tells...
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Medication Adherence in Cystic Fibrosis
Recent research in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) suggests that there are associations between...
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Promoting Sleep in the ICU
Delirium in the ICU has been well studied and is associated with poor patient outcomes. Other...
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Surveying the COPD Scene
In 2010, COPD surpassed stroke to become the third leading cause of death in the United States,...
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SCCM 2014: Formal ED-to-ICU Handoffs Improve Care
The Particulars: Inadequate communication between emergency and critical care team providers has...
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Even in Medicine, There’s an App for That
The launch of the iPhone and Android smartphone platforms spurred a boom in medical application...
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Guidelines for Managing Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction
Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) describes the acute airway narrowing that occurs as a...
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Improving Care for Persistent Pediatric Asthma
About 7 million children in the United States suffer from asthma, and most are typically dependent...
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Improving Pulmonary Hypertension Care
The success of treatment for pulmonary hypertension (PH), including pulmonary arterial...
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Phone Call Follow-Up and Smoking Cessation in the ED
Telephone follow-up after an ED visit is an important strategy for monitoring changes in health...
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CHEST 2013: Peak Expiratory Flow Detects Impairment in Pulmonary Tuberculosis
The Particulars: Research shows that tuberculosis can cause frequent pulmonary impairment....
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CHEST 2013: Comparing Endobronchial Ultrasound Scope Approaches
The Particulars: Previous studies have shown that use of an endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) scope...
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CHEST 2013: Assessing a Brief Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program for COPD
The Particulars: Studies have suggested that a brief pulmonary rehabilitation program may improve...
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CHEST 2013: Cigarette Size & Lung Cancer Risk
The Particulars: The significant risks of smoking have been well established for decades. Little...
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CHEST 2013: Yoga Beneficial in Patients With COPD
The Particulars: Yoga is a simple, inexpensive exercise method that focuses on physical postures,...
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