Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 22, 2025

While we pride ourselves on providing high-quality care for all children, we must acknowledge that the noisy, fast-paced, and unpredictable environment of the ED can be especially distressing for autistic patients. Work with your hospitals care coordination team to create pathways for kids with recurrent ED visits. 2019-1895L.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Olivia Ostrow, MD Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ontario, Canada olivia.ostrow@sickkids.ca A negative test can also provide false reassurance. Comprehensive respiratory viral panels (i.e.,

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work. Clinical Features and Management Strategies in Children With Mycoplasma Pneumoniae. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 68:13. When it comes to management, first and foremost, supportive care.

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

8 For example, prestigious medical schools and hospitals could use official WeChat accounts to share information and news with the general public. 8 For example, prestigious medical schools and hospitals could use official WeChat accounts to share information and news with the general public. Scholars such as Wen et al.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. However, the diagnostic approach used to determine changes in clinical management of renal disease (i.e. This can contribute to a more holistic understanding of disease progression and management.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Javitt — On September 28, 2022, the FDA issued the long anticipated final Clinical Decision Support Software Guidance (CDS Guidance), which replaces the revised draft guidance document from 2019. The guidance provides no rationale for hinging the device status of CDS software on the frequency with which medical information is collected.

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FDA Law

JUNE 22, 2022

This matter is the latest in a recent string of large monetary settlements between the government and health care providers involving employee diversion. Lax Controls Provided Employees with Opportunity to Divert. In short, the employees were provided the opportunity to not only commit the crimes but that they went undetected.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

Michael’s Hospital in Unity Health Toronto, and Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the current President of the Canadian Medical Association. He mentions that healthcare was provided to Indigenous peoples rooted in a charitable effort, rather than as a basic human right. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2019:185-194. 2019;32(1):15-19.

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FDA Law

APRIL 11, 2022

Shapiro — One of the more complex areas of device regulation is the management of risks associated with malfunctions reported from the field. Medtronic Warning Letter) provides an important reminder from FDA as to the correct estimation of risk associated with malfunctions. By Jeffrey K.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § EKRA Issue.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § EKRA Issue.

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FDA Law

JUNE 10, 2024

Houck — It seems as though we cannot get through a week without hearing about controlled substance diversion by employees at another hospital or healthcare facility. DEA, Palomar Hospital Pays $250,000 for Diverting Fentanyl ( June 3, 2024 ). Employee diversion can result in unwanted local and national publicity.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center. As healthcare providers, we must listen to our patients and use the power of our presence to see birthing people’s full humanity and empowerment.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? They’re often angry.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Mike: 2019. Eric: 2019. So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. Eric: And when was the last update? So is the plan updated every four years? Mike: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. They were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers. And I didn’t read it as damning of all for-profit providers, but I think it needed to happen. It feels somewhat random in some ways. Who sees you?

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. J Am Geriatr Soc. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

While many of these procedures provide critical care, we know they are acutely painful. The commonest strategy to manage acute pain in preterm babies is to give them sucrose , a sugar solution. One of these sites does not use sucrose for acute pain management. Whats more, pain isnt always managed.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

CMS did not finalize the price verification survey, which would have required manufacturers of 10 costly drugs selected annually to provide clinical information as well as information on production, distribution, research, and marketing costs, revenue and profit, and ex-U.S. pricing, among other things. See 42 U.S.C. 1396r-8(b)(3)(C)(iii).

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. I think I feel more comfortable as a provider in trying to support people in their isolation.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

2019 Jul;144(1):e20183221. Let’s go ahead and pivot to initial management. Or patients with a substantial head or torso injury and substantial means that they’re going to require an intervention or observation in the hospital. Cervical Spine Injury Risk Factors in Children With Blunt Trauma. Pediatrics.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

I’m Dr. Carney and I am a pediatric resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. From 2019 to 2020, the rate of firearm related deaths among children increased by 30%. In our current environment, it can feel overwhelming as a healthcare provider to discuss firearms. Children’s Defense Fund. 2022, March 18).

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

In Turkey, the COVID-19 vaccination program is performed both in primary care family medicine units and in hospitals. Immunization, 2019. Healthcare Providers’ Vaccine Perceptions, Hesitancy, and Recommendation to Patients: A Systematic Review. REFERENCES World Health Organization. BMC Fam Pract. 2020;21(1):151.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

Immunization status and the management of febrile children in the pediatric emergency department: what are we doing? And so I do encourage you to be familiar with some of the information provided by the CDC as long as it’s still online. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2023;39(1):1-5. doi:10.1097/PEC.0000000000002864 Unfortunately.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Prior authorization varies by plan but often requires patients or their providers to get permission (also called precertification, preauthorization, or preapproval) before filling prescriptions, scheduling imaging, surgery, or an inpatient hospital stay, among other expenses. .” An Unintended Consequence of Health Reform?

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Farah provides clear examples from the Biden administration, in which having the most diverse cabinet in history was critical to building bridges, empathy, and inspiring others to feel included. Eric 10:04 And how many Major League managers are. So that Jackie Robinson had hoped to become a manager after he left baseball.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Blame is deflected to populations on the outskirts of society and used as justification to delay or fail to provide aid. Social interventions are powerful, and as we can see from the COVID-19 responses of countries like South Korea and Taiwan , they are effective at managing this disease. Hospitals Know What’s Coming.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A final OIG rule to change the structure of manufacturer rebates to Medicare Part D and Medicaid Managed Care plans and their PBMs is enmeshed in litigation and is likely to be at least postponed until 2026 (see our post ), and perhaps prevented from implementation altogether, by Congressional mandate.

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