Hospital Medicine News

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Texas, Stephen Z. Fadem, MD, FASN, of Baylor College of Medicine, detailed some practices implemented by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston.

Despite the broad adoption and optimization of electronic health records over a 10-year period, researchers reported “wide variation” in the safety performance of operational EHR systems.

Last week, hospitals were ordered to send COVID-19 data directly to the Trump administration, bypassing the CDC. It was the top story in infectious disease.

Biopsies performed in patients who developed AKI after being diagnosed with COVID-19 showed no viral presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the kidneys, according to a recently published study.

Recently published findings suggest patients receiving in-center hemodialysis may experience increased mortality risk following exposure to air pollution from wildfire smoke.

An intervention implemented in primary care settings reduced serious fall injuries among older adults but was not as effective as expected, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Although COVID-19 has significantly affected people across the world, in the U.S., racial and ethnic minority groups have had a particularly high burden.

The total number of excess deaths in the United States in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic was 28% higher than the number of deaths officially attributed to the virus during that time, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The FDA issued an advisory against nine hand sanitizing products from chemical manufacturer Eskbiochem SA de CV for potentially containing methanol.

In a published report, researchers described the characteristics of patients who received in-center hemodialysis before hospitalization for COVID-19, assessing in-hospital mortality and outcomes after mechanical ventilation was required.