CME: Reducing Unnecessary Opioids After Total Hip Arthroplasty
This course discusses a study that tested the hypothesis that implementing a multidisciplinary,...
Hospital-Based Medicine
Press Ganey Scores Higher When Patients/Docs Share Race, Ethnicity
More diverse physician population needed to match growing diversity of society Although most...
Treatments with ICERs Over $100K-$150K May Not Be Cost Effective
Study highlights importance of cost-effectiveness thresholds in shaping U.S. healthcare policy to...
Feds Warn of Growing Cyberattacks on U.S. Hospitals
Ransomware hampers hospitals’ ability to treat patients Federal agencies warned that...
EDAC: A ’More Comprehensive Picture of Hospital Use’
Small and rural hospitals take less heat with measure of excess days in acute care A hospital...
CME: Endocarditis in Younger Patients With HIV, Hepatitis C, and/or Opioid-Use Disorder
This course discusses a study that estimated national trends in endocarditis among people with...
Covid-19 Worsens In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
Findings highlight importance of goals-of-care discussions SARS-CoV-2 infection worsened survival...
CME: A Look at Inappropriate Inpatient IV Opioid Use
This course discusses a study that sought to identify the incidence of potentially inappropriate...
A Swedish Physician Reacts to Sweden’s COVID-19 Response
As I got up to leave the conference room, I was nauseated. I was on an international meeting for...
Considering Lung Transplant Frailty
The goal of lung transplantation is to improve quality of life (QOL) and extend survival for patients with advanced lung disease. The degree to which individual lung transplant recipients achieve these goals is highly variable....
Antibiotics At the End-of-Life: Helping or Harming?
The following was originally posted by Kelly Cawcutt, MD, to the University of Nebraska Medical...
What Is the Optimal Dosing of Daptomycin for VRE Bacteremia?
The following was originally posted by Jasmine Marcelin, MD, to the University of Nebraska Medical...
