Predicting Long-Term Complications After Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Disease
Sepsis is the most commonly identified risk factor for acute kidney injury (AKI), according to...
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Understanding Captain of the Ship & How it Applies to All Physicians
The term “captain of the ship” is one of the most misunderstood in medical malpractice law. Most...
Diabetes & Infection-Related Hospitalization
“Diabetes is widely thought to increase susceptibility to infection by impairing neutrophil...
Managing Your Online Reputation
The secret to offset a negative review is to balance it out with a five-star review. If you only have one review, and it’s a negative one, there’s not much you can do about it. A better approach might be to ask 30 patients who...
Can Becoming a Physician Social Media Influencer Take Your Career to the Next Level?
Social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, get billions of daily users...
Statins Offer No Benefit for Patients with COVID-19
For hospitalized patients with COVID-19, statins do not offer benefits, and may even increase the risk for severe disease, according to a study published in PLOS One. Samuel K. Ayeh, MBChB, MPH, and colleagues examined the...
App Identifies Delirium in Hospitalized Adults
An app-directed protocol was found to be feasible, brief, and accurate for diagnosing delirium among inpatients, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Edward R. Marcantonio, MD, and colleagues tested a...
Photographing Patients
As phones turned into cameras, HIPAA created national standards to protect a patient’s sensitive health information, including their image, from being disclosed without consent. We can capture anything easily…but are we allowed...
BNT162b2 Effectively Prevents Pediatric COVID-19 Hospitalization
For children and adolescents aged 12-18, two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (BNT162b2) are highly effective for preventing COVID-19 hospitalization, according to research published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report....
Avoid Intensification of Diabetes Meds at Discharge in Older Adults
For older adults with diabetes hospitalized for common medical conditions, discharge with intensified diabetes medications increases the short-term risk for severe hypoglycemia but does not reduce severe hyperglycemia events or...
PW PODCAST: The Evolution of CME
During a recent PW Podcast, Rachel Giles, MD, from Medicom Medical Publishers, spoke with Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)...
