Hospital Medicine News

In this video, Nitin Damle, MD, MS, MACP, past president of the ACP, discusses highlights from his presentation at the virtual ACP Internal Medicine Meeting on the health consequences of climate change.

The AAP updated its guidelines on caring for adolescent parents and their children to include new recommendations on contraception, breastfeeding, and other guidance for pediatricians and clinicians.

The ACP has issued a new guideline that recommends clinicians use point-of-care ultrasound along with the standard diagnostic pathway for patients with acute dyspnea when there is diagnostic uncertainty in the ED and inpatient settings.

Among patients referred from a short-stay acute medical unit, those receiving a comprehensive geriatric assessment at home had similar clinical outcomes as those who received the same assessment in the hospital, data show.

Potentially preventable readmissions account for 17.8% of all hospital readmissions after surgery, with a greater likelihood of readmission among patients who have public health insurance, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.

Assessments in the ED can identify patients who are eligible to have a penicillin allergy removed from their electronic health record, according to findings of a pilot study presented virtually at the SHEA Spring Conference.

An Iowa hospital’s infection prevention and control program experienced a 500% increase in call volume last year — an under-evaluated impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers said at the SHEA Spring Conference.

Stopping contact precautions for MRSA and vancomycin-resistant enterococci did not lead to a major increase in either infection at five Texas hospitals, researchers reported at the SHEA Spring Conference.

Findings of a meta-analysis showed that one in three women who were hospitalized for obstetric complications during pregnancy had clinical levels of depression or anxiety.

Using a traditional definition of health care-associated influenza missed more than 80% of possible cases among patients admitted to acute-care hospitals during seven influenza seasons, researchers reported at the SHEA Spring Conference.