Patient Care Team

ATLANTA — A remote, team-based approach with immediate initiation of necessary medications improved guideline-directed medical therapy use at 6 months for patients with diabetes at high CV or renal risk, researchers reported.

When talking to ICU patients, clinicians often fail to ask about social determinants of health, and this may be due to a lack of a standard for this type of data collection, according to results published in CHEST Critical Care.

PHILADELPHIA — Automatic referrals of eligible patients not already prescribed statins to a centralized pharmacy service via email increased prescriptions of any statin by 16 percentage points compared with usual care, a speaker reported.

In my youth, the thought of being a dialysis technician never entered my mind. The start of my journey into the dialysis world was through the military.

Pregnancy brings risks for serious or even fatal complications for people of reproductive age with HF, and obstetricians and cardiologists should work together to ensure those risks are minimized, according to a new review.

Patients in critical condition in the ICU are often treated by several different health care professionals who must make sure they are working together and communicating to deliver care that aligns with each specific patient’s goals.

WASHINGTON — Results presented here showed that a nested care-team model may produce superior well-being measures among providers and staff compared with a rotating care-team model.

Physician assistants are a critical component of an efficient, effective and productive orthopedic practice.

Comparing a virtual care team strategy with usual care for prescribing guideline-recommended HF therapies.

Better group dynamics among a team of HF specialists are significantly associated with greater likelihood of allocating advanced HF therapies to women, irrespective of patient race and ethnic group, researchers reported.