Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Healthcare Summit

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Here's the skinny from Medscape . Anyone expecting some glorious "eureka!" moment at the White House healthcare summit today t...
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When hospitalist programs run on fumes

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---it's diminishing returns for hospitals. I ran across this post at Better Health by Dr. Wes via a tweet at Med Rants...

Avandia and disclosure

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In reference to yesterday's post there's an interesting thread on disclosure, both as it relates to Dr. Mintz's handling of his...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Revisiting Avandia and personal attacks against Dr. Mintz

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Almost 3 years after the safety hoopla raised by Nissen's NEJM meta-analysis the issue has resurfaced. It seems a report on the Avandi...

What do hospitalists need to know about stroke care?

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...it is important now that the practicing hospitalist is facile in the treatment of patients with cerebrovascular disease-and it is likely ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Interpreting HIT antibody results

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When evaluating patients for heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) we commonly order two tests: antibodies to heparin-platelet factor 4 co...

Glycemic control in cardiac surgery patients

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Recent evidence has been disappointing concerning tight glycemic control in the general critically ill population, and the suggested thresho...

More free educational and entertainment resources

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H/T to Clinical Cases and Images for pointing me to this repository . Open course-ware, free movies, free books, you name it.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

How many consumers are willing to pay for Internet content?

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Most, by far, are going for the free stuff . H/T to STLMedia .

Some hospitalists are reducing readmissions

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---by not being hospitalists anymore. Disturbing .
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There's an interesting discussion on the use of check lists

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---over at DB's Medical Rants . On a hectic and busy medical service the checklist can be an important housekeeping tool for the tired,...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Here's one to add

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---to Joint Commission's list of unapproved abbreviations .

More on Emily Rosa and Therapeutic Touch

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Out of the mouth of a babe. Background on Emily Rosa here .

Remember the girl who debunked therapeutic touch in JAMA?

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Background : Conclusions.—Twenty-one experienced TT practitioners were unable to detect the investigator's "energy field." The...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Torsade de Pointes in hospitalized patients: prevention is key

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AHA/ACCF has issued a new scientific statement on this topic. Here are a few background comments and points I found interes...

Guidelines and principles for interaction with hospitalists

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Although this was released by AAFP for its members it has the imprimatur of AAFP as a guideline document and so would apply to all specialt...

Free fluid, electrolyte and acid-base e-book

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Along with other e-books . Via Clinical Cases and Images .
Thursday, February 18, 2010

In nosocomial MRSA pneumonia

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---adding rifampin to vancomycin may help .

Liver disease and perioperative risk

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From the Perioperative Medicine Summit .

SIRS assessment to predict severity of acute pancreatitis

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Traditional assessment tools for severity of acute pancreatitis require data collection over 24-48 hours. I this new study SIRS criteria e...