Hospital Medicine News

Researchers have found that 20% of EDs in the United States receive telepsychiatry services, according to results of a national survey study published in Psychiatric Services.

The Cambridge Multimorbidity Score — a new method of measuring multimorbidity — outperformed the currently used Charlson Comorbidity Index across all outcomes, according to research published in CMAJ.

Visits to primary care providers dropped by 24.2% from 2008 to 2016, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

For dialysis access, the likelihood of arteriovenous fistula placement and subsequent maturation varied based on specific surgeon characteristics, according to this study.

An emergency committee convened by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, met for the third time today to review the ongoing coronavirus outbreak centered in China and declared that it meets the criteria of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, or PHEIC.

Higher levels of a signaling glycoprotein were associated with acute kidney injury in patients who underwent coronary angiography or cardiac surgery, according to study results.

Monitoring proteinuria levels after hospitalization for acute kidney injury may be helpful in predicting subsequent risk for kidney disease progression, according to study results.

Default electronic medical record settings for opioid dispense quantities positively influenced prescriptions at ED discharge, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

More physicians are entering large or hospital-owned practices and leaving independent or smaller practices, according to findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

In 2017, administrative costs accounted for 34.2% of all health care expenditures in the United States, twice the percentage spent on administration in Canada, according to study findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.