News tagged with hospitalist
Fumbled handoffs can lead to medical errors
Poor communication of the outcomes of medical tests whose results are pending at the time of a patient's hospital discharge is common and can lead to serious medical errors in post-hospitalization medical treatment.
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Study shows dramatic growth in number of hospitalists
One of the most striking changes in health care over the last two decades has been a dramatic increase in physicians categorized as "hospitalists" — doctors who practice almost exclusively in hospitals, rather than combining ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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IDSA announces first guidelines for treatment of MRSA infections
Physicians now have help in their battle against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a potentially deadly infection that initially was limited to hospitals and health care facilities but has become a grow ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Mass. doctor invents product to curb hospital-acquired infections
Saints Medical Center is pleased to announce that Richard H. Ma, M.D, chair of its hospitalist department, has received a patent for a lightweight plastic cover for stethoscopes that will dramatically reduce hospital-acquired ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Hospital readmission studies: Influencing factors identified
In two studies published today in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the risk factors for readmission to the hospital are examined based upon general medicine inpatients and those with at least two admissions in a six-month period ...
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Including families in hospital-care discussions improves communication, benefits medical trainees
It has long been routine for individual medical professionals to go room-to-room on "rounds" to evaluate hospitalized patients.
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Hospitalists key to success of health care reform
Congress passed the most comprehensive healthcare reform bill since the formation of Medicare. While a monumental achievement, the bill leaves much of the critical work of healthcare reform unfinished, according to a new ...
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Numerous factors weighed when patients cannot make their own decisions
Living wills and surrogate decision makers account for only a portion of the many factors weighed by physicians when making medical decisions for hospitalized patients lacking the capability to make their ...
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Physician calls for more rigorous standards for drugs up for FDA approval
A hospitalist at the University of Rochester Medical Center calls for more stringent Federal guidelines governing the approval of potential new drugs, in a commentary in the March 10 issue of the Journal of the American Me ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Changes needed to ensure quality of new orthopedic surgeons
Changes are needed in the programs that train orthopedic surgeons to ensure these doctors are adequately trained, according to a study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City. The study, which ...
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers
Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Better blood screening process needed to prevent babesiosis transmission
Babesiosis is a potentially dangerous parasitic disease transmitted by ticks and is common in the Northeast and the upper Midwest. Babesia lives inside of red blood cells, meaning it can also be transmitted through a blood ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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