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Length of stay shorter with admission to family medicine, not hospitalist, service
The difference in readmission rates did not differ between the two services.
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Study identifies predictors of acquired von Willebrand disease
ATLANTA – Successfully treating Waldenström macroglobulinemia often resolves acquired von Willebrand disease.
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Enhanced recovery protocols after colectomy safely cut LOS
Enhanced recovery protocols for elective colectomy shortened length of stay (LOS) by more than a day and decreased complications without...
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Hospitalization risk twice as likely for veterans with mental illness
Veterans aged 60 and younger with mental illnesses were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized as their peers with no psychiatric or...
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Palliative care underutilized in dementia patients with acute abdomen
For patients with dementia, acute abdominal emergency may represent an appropriate episode during which to introduce palliative care.
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Contraceptive use appears low in teen girls on teratogenic medications
SAN DIEGO – Study finds 7.6% became pregnant over a 3-year period, and only 25% of those had filled birth control prescriptions.
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Skin signs spotlight highest-risk SLE patients
GENEVA – “Those are the lupus patients who still die today.”
Opinion
Identity crisis
Does being a physician guarantee that he or she has more experience than a nurse practitioner?
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Long-acting naltrexone tied to fewer detox admissions, more treatment engagement
Patients with alcohol use disorder and opioid use disorder treated with the long-acting injections attained more than 2 years of abstinence.
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Building a better SHM
In January, SHM will launch its new association management system and a new online community platform for the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX).