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A number of national groups have gotten together and issued new guidelines for the management of severe sepsis and septic shock, led by our former Pulmonary and Critical Care division director Phillip Dellinger....

Volunteerism is common in the United States, though less is known about volunteerism among medical professionals. We aimed to record and compare volunteer activities among hospitalists and non-hospitalists in academic and community centers....

This is a 66 year old woman with progressive dyspnea on exertion for 7 months. Based on the ECG findings, what further evaluation is indicated?

an academic hospitalist group and identifies areas to focus interventions on both personal and systemic levels....

QUESTION: A 53 years old female receives transfusion of 2 units of PRBCs. One hour later, she develops acute dyspnea with decreased O2 saturations. Chest x-ray demonstrates new bilateral pulmonary infiltrates. Could this ...

Question: A 40 year old male presented with a five week history of rash. His primary physician had initially treated him for eczema, without improvement.

Hospitals in Missouri perform surveillance and external reporting for a number of hospital-acquired infections (HAI). We are required to do so variously by the stateof Missouri, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and for those...

Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome is a severe systemic reaction that usually begins 2-6 weeks after the introduction of the inciting agent. It is mostcommonly characterized by fever, ...

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, ...

The guidelines from the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) recommend "early, appropriate antibiotics inadequate doses, while avoiding excessive antibiotics by de-escalation ...

Introduction: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services financially penalize hospitals for elevated 30-day readmission rates. Identifying patients at high risk for short-term readmission would allow health systems to ...

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 ...

[EMBARGOED UNTIL 6/1/2023] Over the years, hospital gowns have become accepted as the standard attire worn by patients in healthcare settings, especially in hospitals. The need for hospital gowns is still present in today's ...

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 ...

Cardiac arrest remains an increasing health problem, leading to thousands of cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempts annually. With variations in code blue documentation and post-event team debriefings, a standardized ...

and effort of administering traditional survey instruments. To address this challenge, we deployed a single-item burnout measure (SIBM) at the University of Missouri Healthcare, an academic medical center (AMC), to test the feasibility and reliability...