Hospitalization

On Nov. 29, 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a directive clarifying that authorities can bring people experiencing homelessness and severe mental illness to a hospital for care, according to a city press release.

AUSTIN, Texas —Patients on dialysis who are hyporesponsive to anemia treatment have a higher risk for hospitalizations and death, according to data presented here.

AUSTIN, Texas — Patients with AKI self-reported a high level of physical and emotional burdens, revealing fatigue to be one of the most common symptoms, according to a presenter at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.

Older adults with a history of hypothyroidism who were hospitalized with COVID-19 had a similar risk for severe outcomes and mortality compared with those without hypothyroidism, according to study data.

Treatment with a monoclonal antibody within 2 days of a COVID-19 diagnosis reduced the risk for hospitalization or death by almost 40%, according to a study that assessed patient outcomes over a nearly 2-year period.

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who coughed 3.4 times per hour or less based on digital cough monitoring faced a greater risk for intubation or death, according to study results published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

Meaningful end-of-life care efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic included maintaining relationships with isolated patients, connecting patients to families and creating humanistic episodes, according to study results published in CHEST.

Among patients with pulmonary embolism who underwent percutaneous thrombectomy, women experienced more procedure complications and mortality than men, according to study results published in CHEST.

Researchers identified a test-negative design as the “least biased and most efficient” to measure COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in patients with chronic kidney disease, according to data in Kidney International.

Sepsis survivors from ICU and non-ICU settings treated with rehabilitation within 6 months had greater survival rates within 3 years following hospitalization, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.