#PWChat Recap – Hospitals, Not Hotels: A Look at Global Budgets
The Physician’s Weekly #PWChat series continued with another insightful discussion on Thursday,...
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Hospital Medicine
#PWChat – Convincing Antivaxxers: Winning the Vaccine Argument With Patients
Join us Wednesday, August 30 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda...
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Guidance on Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis & Meningitis
Healthcare-associated ventriculitis and meningitis (HAVM) is not an uncommon problem in clinical...
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Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation’s ICUs
Since 2009, hospital intensive care units have witnessed a stark increase in opioid-related...
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Age, Race, & Gender Differences in Pneumococcal Disease
Several studies have assessed gender differences in susceptibility to a variety of infectious...
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Exposure to Antimicrobials During Development May Cause Irreversible Outcomes
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have discovered that exposure to environmental...
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Characterizing Operative Experiences of Pediatric Surgeons
Pediatric surgery trainees must have 2 more years of experience beyond what the American Board of...
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Drug Used to Combat Opioid Addiction is Being Underprescribed
A drug approved for private physicians to treat opioid addiction is being underprescribed, and a...
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#PWChat – Hospitals, Not Hotels: A Look at Global Budgets
Join us Thursday, August 24 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Joshua...
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New Injectable Antiretroviral Treatment Proved to Be as Effective as Standard Oral Therapy
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) intramuscularly administered may have the same effectiveness as...
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Delirium, Advanced Cancer, & ED Visits
Delirium is a serious cognitive disturbance in which patients have impaired thinking and...
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Shared Decision Making in the ED
For decades, the paradigm of paternalistic medicine ruled the land. Patients were expected to be...
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Implementing In-Hospital 3D Printing
Although 3D printing has become more popular in the last decade, few hospitals are printing by...
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John Hopkins Study Confirms Most Prescribed Opioid Pills Go Unused
In a review of half a dozen published studies in which patients self-reported use of opioids...
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Is Outpatient Care Quality Improving Over Time?
More than a decade ago, landmark studies found that adults in the United States only received...
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Primary Hyperparathyroidism Guidelines
“Each year, more than 100,000 new cases of pHPT are diagnosed in the United States,” says Scott M....
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Reducing Obstructive Sleep Apnea Emergencies
“Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is increasingly being recognized as a risk factor for...
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Assessing Appropriate Use of Vascular Access Devices
Safe and reliable venous access is paramount when administering medications in critically ill and...
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Doctor and Patient Relationships: Empathy & Litigation
Research has shown that emergency physicians (EPs) with better interpersonal skills and who spend...
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Older Adults Who Eat Yogurt Linked to Better Bone Health
The largest observational study to date of dairy intakes and bone and frailty measurements in...
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