Hospital Medicine News

In an article published in Kidney Medicine, nephrologists from Mount Sinai Hospital in East Harlem, New York, outline how they are ensuring that patients who require dialysis receive safe and effective care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leaders of states and cities with the highest burden of COVID-19 early in the pandemic have called for resources — from ventilators to medical personnel — to be shifted to these areas.

Nephrologists from around the globe — and primarily from China as this is where the virus originated — have developed a set of recommendations for the care of pediatric patients undergoing either in-center or home dialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The American Nephrology Nurses Association has recently launched an online tool that consists of an interactive map designed to ensure that the areas of greatest need have an adequate number of nephrology nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The artificial intelligence-enabled clinical diagnostic for kidney disease, known as KidneyIntelX, will be used in a study to determine its predictive ability to assess the risk of adverse kidney events in patients diagnosed with COVID-19, according to a press release from RenalytixAI.

The unique challenges of COVID-19 require adjustments to the delivery of palliative care during the pandemic, according to an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Medical schools across the country have announced that they are graduating final year medical students early to allow them to enter their residencies as much-needed additions to the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.

During a virtual Town Hall meeting recently hosted by the AMA, experts reviewed the latest research on COVID-19 and addressed questions from health care providers on the front lines about the availability of personal protective equipment, treatments for COVID-19 and efforts to secure the financial stability of private practices.

Like most other aspects of health care in the United States, social determinants of health play a role in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The addition of the claims-based frailty index to the CMS Hierarchical Condition Category to Medicare’s cost prediction model correctly predicted costs of care, especially for clinicians with a disproportionate number of patients who were frail, according to a retrospective cohort study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.