Notes from Dr. RW

From the blue journal .

You don’t hear so much about hospitalists as clinicians at SHM sessions anymore it seems. Here’s a piece about hospitalists...

LOL .

From a recent report : Background The Tigecycline Evaluation and Surveillance Trial (T.E.S.T) is a glob...

A potentially overlooked cause in hospitalized patients .

Here’s an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine . Is this a “tragedy of the commons?” This is not a conflict...

In this study 82% got some degree of AKI most of whom had microscopic changes of tubular injury. It did not closely correla...

According to Bob Wachter it’ll be well on its way to taking over the diagnostic role of the clinician , and in as little as ...

Letter to Today’s Hospitalist : ...we would be remiss not to mention the biggest driver of multidrug resistant organ...

From JAMA Psychiatry : Design, Setting, and Participants For this study, a US national cohort of patients with ADHD...

From the green journal : Diuretic therapy is a cornerstone in the management of heart failure. Most studies assessin...

I know I’m a little late with this. Here’s the paper published in Chest. Form the paper: Methods In this ...

--- and teams up with AAFP . In short, the target is systolic below 150, and consider below 140 if high cardiovascul...

A lot of it is about attitude .

What we dared not say aloud 15 years ago .

Here is a review in JACC. There is an audio file which nicely summarizes the article.

From a BMJ review : Enterotoxic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is the most common cause of acute travellers’ diarrhoea globally ...

In this study published in JACC the signal was mixed.

From a recent review : Conclusions: Many stress ulcer prophylaxis recommendations are based on older studies at risk...

From a  systematic review : Data Synthesis: Ten studies met the inclusion criteria. The current body of evidence doe...