FRAIL scale found to predict 1-year functional status of geriatric trauma patients
WAIKOLOA, HAWAII – The FRAIL scale questionnaire predicts functional status and mortality at 1 year among geriatric trauma patients and is a useful tool for bedside screening by clinicians, results... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 17, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Study suggests link between commonly used antihypertensive drug and skin cancer
Despite its widespread use as a guideline-recommended, first-line agent for the treatment of hypertension, hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) may contribute to an increased risk of skin cancer, according to... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 17, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Benralizumab reduces exacerbations in pivotal severe asthma trials
LONDON – The investigational treatment benralizumab significantly reduced the number of exacerbations that patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma experienced during the course of a year in two... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 16, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Think outside the ‘cardiac box’ to predict cardiac injury
WAIKOLOA, HI. – For gunshot wounds, the current “cardiac box” was the poorest predictor of cardiac injury, results from a single-center retrospective study demonstrated.
“We determined that, from a... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 16, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Should I throw out my expired medications?
A 55-year-old patient requests new prescriptions at a routine appointment. She will be traveling internationally next month and wants to replace her emergency medication kit, as the medications in it... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 16, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Checklist may prompt cuts in unneeded antibiotic prescriptions
Primary care practitioners’ use of a seven-item checklist may reduce the number of pediatric patients with respiratory tract infections who are prescribed unnecessary antibiotics, a prognostic cohort... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 15, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Noninvasive ventilation prevents rehospitalization in COPD patients
LONDON – Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and persistent hypercapnia were half as likely to be readmitted to hospital 1 year after an acute hypercapnic exacerbation if they... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 15, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Trials confirm benefits of triple COPD therapy
LONDON – Phase III evidence confirms the multiple benefits of using a triple, fixed-dose combination (FDC) therapy over standard options in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 15, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Insulin-dependent pilots can fly safely with glucose monitoring protocol
MUNICH – British commercial pilots with insulin-dependent diabetes are flying safely, thanks to a rigorous protocol of hourly blood glucose monitoring during every flight.
Almost every one of the... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 14, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Brain atrophy is already evident in patients with prediabetes
MUNICH – Brain changes suggestive of cerebral microvascular dysfunction are already apparent in patients with prediabetes.
The changes – increased white matter hyperintensities and decreased white... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 14, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Hepatitis Outlook: August 2016
If you work on the front lines of medical care treating patients with hepatitis, you may not have time to review all the hepatitis research that enters the medical literature every month. Here’s a... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 14, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
A quarter of hypertensive Medicare enrollees are nonadherent
Over 26% of Medicare part D enrollees aged 65 years and over are not taking their antihypertensive drugs properly, according to a report published online Sept. 13 in MMWR.
An analysis of 2014 data... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 14, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Four factors raise risk of post-TAVR endocarditis
Four factors – younger patient age, male sex, diabetes, and moderate to severe residual aortic regurgitation – are associated with a significantly increased risk of infective endocarditis after... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 14, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Smoking thickens LV wall, worsens function
Current smoking, as well as higher levels of cumulative cigarette exposure from past smoking, were both associated with higher left ventricular mass, a higher LV mass-to-volume ratio, and worse... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 13, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
Four-step screen IDs silent heart attack in type 2 diabetes
MUNICH – A four-component imaging/biomarker screen was highly accurate for identifying silent myocardial infarction among asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes.
The screen is far more accurate... (Source: Hospitalist News)
Source: Hospitalist News - September 13, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research
