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ACP supports the “Care About Your Care” initiative
ACP has joined with many other organizations to help improve care transitions and reduce avoidable readmissions.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/02/05/8.htm
5 Feb 2013
How Medicare fee-for-service is like a 1965 Ford Mustang
Fee-for-service reimbursement is a half-century old, and despite its staying power is now facing demands that it be modernized, if not traded in altogether.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/05/washington.htm
1 May 2015
Tool helps estimate heart failure patients' risk for low quality of life
Researchers have designed a simple tool to help recognize heart failure patients who, at the time of hospital discharge, are at high risk for death or a persistently unfavorable quality of life.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/06/28/4.htm
28 Jun 2011
More things you shouldn't do based on the lack of evidence
Unwarranted testing and use of resources make up the biggest chunk of unnecessary health care costs, estimated at between $250 and $325 billion per year, and include such items as folic acid tests for patients with altered mental status, creatine kinase muscle-brain testing, and 24-hour patient observation after switching from IV to oral antibiotics.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/05/evidence.htm
1 May 2014
Patients may safely continue aspirin to the day of pancreas surgery
Patients undergoing major pancreas operations can continue taking aspirin through the morning of surgery with no increased risk of bleeding, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/30/6.htm
30 Jul 2013
Younger whites only group to see more noncardia stomach cancer
New drug-eluting stents outperform old ones except in diabeticsEarly follow-up reduces heart failure readmissions
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/05/11/4.htm
11 May 2010
MKSAP Quiz: Cardiac risk reduction
A 62-year-old man is evaluated during a routine examination. Medical history is significant for a myocardial infarction 3 years ago, dyslipidemia, hypertension, tobacco use, and drinking two alcoholic drinks per day. What intervention offers the greatest cardiac risk reduction in this patient?
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/11/20/3.htm
20 Nov 2012
The next issue is online and coming to your mailbox
The October issue of ACP Hospitalist is online. Don't miss stories on:
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/10/19/10.htm
19 Oct 2010
The next issue of ACP Hospitalist is online
Internists considering or actively planning a switch to hospital medicine can subscribe for free upon request to ACP Hospitalist, the College's monthly magazine reporting on trends in hospital medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/02/23/9.htm
23 Feb 2010
Warfarin associated with better 1-year outcomes for patients with CKD who experience acute MI with afib
Giving warfarin to acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients with atrial fibrillation who have chronic kidney disease (CKD) was associated with better 1-year outcomes than not giving warfarin, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/03/11/2.htm
11 Mar 2014