Population Health Can Improve Postdischarge Care Population Health Can Improve Postdischarge Care
Healthcare organizations must change their structure or risk going the way of Choluteca Bridge, which was built to be hurricane-proof and became useless when the course of the river shifted beneath it.The Hospitalist (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hospital Medicine News Source Type: news
Hospitalists Share Work-Parent Experience During Pandemic Hospitalists Share Work-Parent Experience During Pandemic
Child care and odd hours always have been a challenge for hospitalists and for those in academia, any ' wiggle room ' in the schedule is often taken up by education, administration, and research projects.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hospital Medicine News Source Type: news
Cancer Treatments Bring Concerns for Hospitalists Cancer Treatments Bring Concerns for Hospitalists
Advances in cancer treatment have brought a range of potential issues that hospitalists are likely to see in admitted patients, many of which can escalate quickly into life-threatening emergencies.The Hospitalist (Source: Medscape ObGyn and Womens Health Headlines)
Source: Medscape ObGyn and Womens Health Headlines - August 20, 2020 Category: OBGYN Tags: Hospital Medicine News Source Type: news
Odd Symptom in Any Organ Can Signal Trouble in Immunotherapy Odd Symptom in Any Organ Can Signal Trouble in Immunotherapy
Advances in cancer treatment have brought a range of potential issues that hospitalists are likely to see in admitted patients, many of which can escalate quickly into life-threatening emergencies.The Hospitalist (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - August 20, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Hospital Medicine News Source Type: news
Accurately Diagnosing Narrow Complex Tachycardias on EKGs Accurately Diagnosing Narrow Complex Tachycardias on EKGs
Hospitalist Meghan Mary Walsh, MD, MPH, has developed a simple and efficient method for doing so within a minute or two that she ' s used with great success.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - August 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Tags: Hospital Medicine News Source Type: news
A Rheumatologist Who Briefly Became a COVID Hospitalist A Rheumatologist Who Briefly Became a COVID Hospitalist
Rheumatologist Karmela Chan shares her experiences working as a COVID hospitalist.Hospital for Special Surgery (Source: Medscape Orthopaedics Headlines)
Source: Medscape Orthopaedics Headlines - July 27, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Rheumatology Commentary Source Type: news
Endocrine Hospitalist-Led Service Improves Diabetes Care Endocrine Hospitalist-Led Service Improves Diabetes Care
Mihail Zilbermint, MD, who created and leads one of the very few inpatient diabetes management programs in a small US community hospital, spoke with Medscape Medical News about his successes and challenges.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines)
Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines - July 10, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news
Pediatric Hospitalists Convene to Discuss PHM Designation Pediatric Hospitalists Convene to Discuss PHM Designation
"If we build it, will they come? If they come, will it mean anything to them? That ' s the million-dollar question," Dr Chang said.The Hospitalist (Source: Medscape Pediatrics Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pediatrics Headlines - July 9, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Hospital Medicine News Source Type: news
Hospitalists Stretch Into New Roles on COVID-19 Front Lines Hospitalists Stretch Into New Roles on COVID-19 Front Lines
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems, hospitals, and hospitalists have had to stretch limits, redefine roles, and redeploy critical staff in response to needs on the ground.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines - June 12, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Hospital Medicine News Source Type: news
News: Hospitalist Teams Provide Backup, Especially during Surges Like COVID-19
No abstract available (Source: Emergency Medicine News)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - June 1, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Source Type: news
New York City Inpatient Detox Unit Keeps Running: Here's How New York City Inpatient Detox Unit Keeps Running: Here's How
Substance use disorder and its daily consequences take no breaks — even during a pandemic. A New York City hospitalist discusses inpatient detoxification amid an unprecedented health crisis.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hospital Medicine Commentary Source Type: news
Engagement and leadership in firearm-related violence prevention: the role of the pediatric hospitalist - Silver AH, Andrews AL, Azzarone G, Bhansali P, Hjelmseth E, Hogan AH, O'Connor KM, Romo N, Parikh K.
Gun violence is a US public health crisis. Approximately 7000 children are hospitalized each year because of firearm-related injuries. As pediatric hospitalists, we are poised to address this crisis, whether we care directly for patients who are victims of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
What to Know About Kawasaki Disease, the Pediatric Inflammatory Condition Possibly Linked to COVID-19
Six weeks ago, in the relatively early days of the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak, Dr. Veena Goel Jones, a pediatric hospitalist with Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, treated a six-month-old baby girl for what she calls “classic Kawasaki disease.” The infant had fever, rash and swelling characteristic of the pediatric inflammatory condition.
Jones, who is also an adjunct clinical assistant professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, and her team also tested the girl for COVID-19, mainly out of hospital protocol—”not necessarily because we felt very strongly like she must have the virus,” ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Outpatient Procedural Sedation in Kids More Commonly Provided by Hospitalists Outpatient Procedural Sedation in Kids More Commonly Provided by Hospitalists
Outpatient procedural sedation in children is increasingly provided by pediatric hospitalists, and providers are using less chloral hydrate and pentobarbital, researchers report.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - May 1, 2020 Category: Surgery Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
COVID-19 news from Annals of Internal Medicine
(American College of Physicians) Preparing for battle: how hospitalists can manage the stress of COVID-19. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - April 21, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
