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Missouri hospitalist calendar, 2010-02
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-02)
Calendar of upcoming events.
Missouri hospitalist, issue 26 (2010 February 25)
(University of Missouri. Department of Medicine. Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-02)
From the journals
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-02)
Author present analyses of four recent articles.
Clostridium difficile infection : considerations for hospitalists
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2017-04)
As hospitalists, we often care for patients who either present with diarrhea or develop diarrhea during their hospital visit. We have learned to think of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) early. In the United States, administrative data...
National Patient Safety Awareness Week : March 7-13, 2010
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-02)
National Patient Safety Awareness Week will be March 7-13 this year. Many such "awareness weeks" come and go with barely more than a sign in the elevator to recognize their existence. Take a few moments this next month to ...
ID corner : catheter-related urinary tract infections
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-02)
When should you culture or treat urine culture results from Foley catheters?
Missouri hospitalist, issue 41 (2011 November-December)
(University of Missouri. Department of Medicine. Division of Hospital Medicine, 2016-10)
Primum non nocere
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-02)
practitioner of hospital medicine, one quickly realizes that the realities of universally achieving these goals can be, at the very least, challenging. Patient safety has played an increasingly prominent role in many hospitals over the past 25 years and many...
Hospitalist update : New Guidance on Concomitant Use of PPIs and Clopidogrel
(University of Missouri. Department of Medicine. Division of Hospital Medicine, 2011-11)
Case of the month
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-02)
Description and diagnosis of 67 year-old Caucasian male patient admitted to the ER.
Leadless cardiac pacemaker therapy : an overview for the Hospitalist
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-07)
"Each year, approximately 200,000 permanent pacemakers are implanted in the United States and 1,000,000 worldwide.1,2 Since the initial transvenous pacemaker implantation 6 decades ago, improvements in battery longevity, ...
Acute ischemic stroke management review for the hospitalist
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)
The treatment of acute ischemic stroke is dependent on timely recognition. After ensuring airway, respiratory and circulatory stability, NIHSS should be performed and urgent CT scan obtained. If no exclusions exist, ...
Transitional Care Intervention to Reduce 30-day Readmission Rate in Cardiac Transplant Patients
(2016-05)
Readmission remains a financial burden in our healthcare arena. Billions of dollars in hospital payments were made from Medicare towards readmissions. The problem of patients’ ineffective transitions during hospital discharge ...
Experiences influencing physician rural practice and retention : a phenomenological study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A physician maldistribution exists when comparing rural with urban areas. It is necessary to ensure rural citizens have available, accessible, and acceptable quality medical care to remedy health disparities resulting from ...
Impact of Systematizing the Evaluation of Patients with Acute Heart Failure Presenting to the Emergency Department
(2020)
to February 2020, using an implementation planning framework, a standardized care path called the ‘Code Heart Failure’ (CodeHF) was developed, implemented, and validated within a tertiary care center. The care path rapidly identifies patients with a history...
Multimodal Intervention to Increase Advance Care Planning in Primary Care Medicare Patients
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Advance care planning is the guideline recommended process which encourages adults to
analyze values, identify goals, and articulate preferences for future medical care in order to
protect autonomy in the event of ...
Transforming the ethical behavior of clinicians through pedagogical innovation: sensemaking as a means to promote ethical practice in the face of moral ambiguity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Even though there is evidence to suggest that teaching normative ethical theory has limited influence on the ethical behavior of clinicians, typical pedagogy in clinical ethics continues to focus on adherence to professional ...
Insights for rural health care provider retention : a quantitative survey analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Due to rural health disparities and an uneven distribution of health providers across the rural urban continuum, retaining the existing rural health care provider workforce may be an important strategy to maintain existing ...
Discomfort in Addressing Spiritual Needs: A Hospital-Wide Exploration into the Hole in Holistic Care
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Throughout its history, the nursing profession has claimed to provide holistic patient care, which is defined as bio-psycho-socio-spiritual care. However, many nurses do not feel comfortable with the “spiritual” element ...