Hospital and Illness - Primary Care Digest

The Case of the Dropping Albumin

A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 29, 2025

He works at the Catholic hospital across the city from the rival, bigger, Cityside hospital. Back in March, Glenda became very ill very quickly and was first admitted to our local hospital and within 24 hours they transferred her to Cityside. She turned out to have abscesses threatening several of her vital organs.

Illness

Illness Hospital Appointment Complication

"We feel alone and not listened to": Somali, Hmong and Latin American Parents Perspectives on Pediatric Serious Illness [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The experience of ethnically diverse parents of children with serious illness in the US healthcare system has not been well studied. Participants: Twenty-six parent participants (eight Somali, ten Hmong, and eight Latin American) of children with serious illness were recruited through local clinics and hospitals.

Illness

Illness Medical Staff Community Healthcare

The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. A difference-in-differences (DID) approach was used to compare outcomes in two groups: Medicaid beneficiaries assigned to KHH and those who were not.

Integrated Care

Integrated Care Utilities Illness Healthcare

Clap Outs

Mere Mortal MD

MAY 25, 2025

Friday was a special day at the rehabilitation hospital as we had what’s called a “clap out.” ” This is somewhat organized–as in, we will get an overhead page or text when it’s about to happen–and occurs when a patient has been at the hospital for a very long time.

Hospital

Hospital Illness Patients IT

Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Three PC practices (two private and one hospital-based) in the High Plains Research Network and the Colorado Research Network in rural Colorado. Objective: Describe PC practices’ challenges and tailored approaches to effective SBIRT implementation. Population Studied: PC clinicians and staff.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Nurse Practitioner Referral

Common brain network for psychiatric illness discovered

Medical Xpress

JANUARY 12, 2023

Psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and depression, affect nearly one in five adults in the United States and nearly half of patients diagnosed with a psychiatric illness also meet the criteria for a second. Their results are published in Nature Human Behavior.

Illness

Illness Diagnose Healthcare Hospital

ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Our tele-ICU program , which is part of our critical care specialty, has brought meaningful and much-needed intensive care to remote communities for the past five years.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Community Hospital Patients

Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness

NPR Health - Shots

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In Michigan, only 9 out of more than 130 hospitals have a pediatric ICU. Pediatric cases of RSV and flu have sent families crowding into ERs, as health systems struggle with staff shortages. Image credit: Lester Graham/Michigan Radio)

Hospital

Hospital ER Illness Families

This safety-net hospital doctor treats mostly uninsured and undocumented patients

NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 15, 2023

Many of Ricardo Nuila's patients at Houston's Ben Taub Hospital are dealing with serious illnesses as a result of not being able to access basic preventive care. His new book is The People's Hospital. Image credit: Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images)

Hospital

Hospital Patients Preventative Care Preventive Care

Predicting suicide risk with the Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide (OxMIS) model

Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2023

Researchers at the University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, U.K., looking into a suicide prevention tool have published a paper titled "Predicting suicide risk in 137,112 people with severe mental illness in Finland: external validation of the Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide tool (OxMIS)" in the journal Translational Psychiatry.

Illness

Illness Utilities Hospital IT

There's a spike in respiratory illness among children — and it's not just COVID

NPR Health - Shots

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in parts of the country and some pediatric hospitals say they're running out of beds. Image credit: Christophe Ena/AP)

Emergency Room

Emergency Room Illness IT Hospital

Clinical Strategies and Challenges of Psychiatrists in Accra, Ghana [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The authors used a qualitative research design, interviewing five psychiatrists from Pantang Psychiatric Hospital and two psychiatry residents rotating at Pantang and Accra Psychiatric Hospital in Accra, and Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in Cape Coast.

Clinic

Clinic Illness Mental Health Finance

Top 10 Conditions Treated at an Acute Care Facility

Newnan Family Medicine Associates

JUNE 12, 2025

Acute care is vital in the healthcare system, providing prompt medical attention for sudden illnesses and injuries. An acute care facility, often called a general hospital, is equipped to diagnose and treat various acute conditions. These facilities boast highly trained medical professionals and advanced.

Diagnose

Diagnose Illness Healthcare Hospital

Telemedicine reduces hospital transfers for very ill kids at rural, community emergency departments

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So, when an acutely ill child is seen in one of these facilities, they are typically transferred to regional pediatric centers for more comprehensive care. Many rural and community emergency departments lack access to pediatric specialty care physicians.

Illness

Illness Community Telemedicine Comprehensive Care

Low Lumbar Muscle Mass Linked to ICU Mortality

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

The following is a summary of “Exploring the association between computed tomography (CT)-derived skeletal muscle mass and short- and long-term mortality in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis,” published in the June 2025 issue of Critical Care by Maluf et al.

Illness

Illness Hospital Relationship Screening

ICU Statin Therapy Tied to Significant Sepsis Mortality Reduction

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Recent research showed that ICU statin therapy was associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis. Statin use is associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis, according to a study published online in Frontiers in Immunology.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Illness Hospital Patients

Inside a children's hospital: Struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Waiting for their turn in the emergency room, dazed-looking parents in winter coats bounced crying children in their arms, trying to catch the eye of Dr. Erica Michiels. Pick us next! they seemed to plead with tired eyes.

Emergency Room

Emergency Room Illness Hospital

Taking Control of Your Health: The Benefits of Preventative Care

Newnan Family Medicine Associates

JUNE 12, 2025

Preventative care is a way to keep you healthy while detecting diseases and illnesses when they are treatable, reducing complications. However, people don’t usually think about visiting hospitals until they experience. Your overall health is important for improved quality of life and peace of mind.

Preventative Care

Preventative Care Preventive Care Complication Illness

Seattle Children's Hospital is being inundated with respiratory illness patients

NPR Health - Shots

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Pediatric hospitals in the U.S. are being inundated with patients due to an unusually early and intense surge of respiratory illnesses. Here's how one Seattle hospital is coping.

Illness

Illness Hospital Patients

NY plan to involuntarily treat mentally ill homeless? Not entirely outrageous, psychiatrist says

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For years, American cities and towns have struggled with how to address those living on their streets who suffer from mental illness but refuse treatment.

Illness

Illness Mental Health Government Hospital

High-Risk Older Adults Lack Knowledge, Awareness of RSV Vaccine

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Knowledge of RSV disease and RSV vaccine eligibility is low among hospitalized older adults, according to a study published online April 1 in JAMA Network Open. Of the 6,746 hospitalized adults aged 60 years or older, 10.4% were RSV-vaccinated and unvaccinated, respectively. The researchers found that 47.2%

Vaccination

Vaccination Education Hospital Illness

Characterization and determinant factors of critical illness and in-hospital mortality of COVID-19 patients in Kenya

Medical Xpress

MARCH 8, 2023

Globally, there is an anticipated epidemiological heterogeneity of COVID-19 patients. No epidemiological studies validated the epidemiological characterization of COVID-19 patients in African settings.

Patients

Patients Illness Hospital

Statin Use Linked to Reduced Mortality for Patients With Sepsis

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — For critically ill adults with sepsis, statin use is associated with reduced mortality, according to a study published online June 5 in Frontiers in Immunology. Statin use was also associated with reduced intensive care unit mortality and reduced in-hospital mortality (odds ratios, 0.43

Patients

Patients Hospital Illness Medical

From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

They want time to spend with patients, to find the root cause of illness, provide lifestyle support, and help with treatment compliance. And, in response to patient demand, concierge care is growing every day, especially in large medical groups, hospitals, and healthcare organizations. But what can be done?

Patients

Patients Healthcare Relationship Healthcare Experience

Mortality and cost of severe acute pancreatitis keeps pressure on hospitals

Medical Xpress

MAY 16, 2023

Medical experts in Australasia have raised concern about the rising burden of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) in intensive care units, with no change in mortality rates in these critically ill patients in almost two decades.

Hospital

Hospital Illness Medical Patients

He was stuck in a hospital for 8 months. How states can fail people with disabilities

NPR Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In Georgia and other states, the federal government oversees the treatment of people with mental illness and developmental disabilities, because the states have been unable to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the subsequent Olmstead ruling. Image credit: Sam Whitehead/KFF Health News)

Hospital

Hospital Government Illness

Critical illness myopathy is a common condition in intensive care patients, finds study

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Critical illness myopathy (CIM) is a common complication affecting ventilator-treated intensive care patients, which can lead to increased mortality/morbidity, prolonged hospital care, impaired patient quality of life, and increased health care costs.

Illness

Illness Patients Complication Hospital

Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

. “The population over 65, which often suffers the worst impact of respiratory viruses and others, now has the benefit of vaccines that can prevent much of that serious illness,” he said. RSV is the most common cause of hospitalization for infants, and it also poses significant risks to older people.

Vaccination

Vaccination Illness Hospital Patient-Centered

Have you had your flu shot?

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Anyone with chronic illness, pregnant women, and extremes of age are more likely to be hospitalized, so we all need to do our part to keep each other safe. There are formulations manufactured without egg products, so the worry of egg-allergy should not be a reason to abstain from a flu shot. So, have you had your flu shot?

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Illness Hospital

5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Preventive Care Primary doctors can offer preventive care to their patients, which typically includes check-ups and screenings to prevent them from contracting illnesses. Disease Diagnosis If a patient visits a hospital with specific symptoms, a primary care doctor diagnoses what they're suffering from.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Doctor Provider Primary Care

A single-shot treatment to protect infants from RSV may be coming soon

NPR Health - Shots

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The illness sends tens of thousands of babies to the hospital each year. If approved, the new injection would be the first broadly available prevention tool. Image credit: Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty I)

Illness

Illness Hospital

4, 3, 2, 1 And 90.

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Whether it be for chronic pain, for chronic illness, for companionship, simply to have a place to hang out for a few hours, or to get some food, we are often inundated with these patients at the most inopportune times. Several tan plastic bags (with a local market's emblem) occupied both his walker's seat as well as a maroon hospital chair.

ER

ER Patient-Centered Patients Management

CDC Vaccine Expert Resigns After RFK Jr. Cuts Advisers

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Dr. Fiona Havers , who led the CDC’s tracking of hospitalizations from COVID-19 and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), stepped down this week. She presented hospitalization data at ACIP meetings. families at risk of dangerous and preventable illnesses,” they wrote. ” The memo was obtained by The Washington Post.

Vaccination

Vaccination Hospital Illness Provider

Mental illness surge among Swiss girls, young women: statistics

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Young Swiss women and girls were hospitalized at an "unprecedented" rate last year for mental health issues, the national statistics office said Monday, indicating the pandemic took a particularly heavy toll on this group.

Illness

Illness Mental Health Hospital

Despite pleas from pediatric groups, Biden balks at declaring RSV a health emergency

Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Biden administration on Thursday offered assistance to communities and hospitals dealing with a surge in cases of pediatric respiratory illnesses, but it did not declare a national public health emergency.

Illness

Illness Community Hospital IT

Episode 39 – Supraventricular Tachycardia with Dr. Zaven Sargsyan

The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 14, 2019

Zaven Sargsyan joins the CPSolvers to share his approach to supraventricular tachycardia Download CPSolvers App here Schema AVNRT illness script Telemetry strip #1 Telemetry strip #2 Show Notes Dr. Zaven Sargsyan Dr. Zaven Sargsyan is a hospitalist and associate residency director at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).

Diagnosis

Diagnosis Illness Physicals Hospital

'No space': German hospitals overwhelmed by sick kids

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Debora Zilz rushed her baby son Andreas to a Berlin hospital because of a serious respiratory illness, she got a shock.

Hospital

Hospital Illness

Patient Testimonial – Eduardo Sanchez Castillo

Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 20, 2024

At Logansport Memorial Hospital, we know how an unexpected injury or illness can impact your daily routine and quality of life. Ending up in the hospital can be scary and worrisome for patients and their families, and Eduardo Sanchez Castillo’s experience was no different. My foot was bad. Really, really bad.

Patients

Patients Patient-Centered Diabetes Hospital

How to avoid illness as COVID-19 and the flu surge

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A one-two punch of COVID-19 and the flu is striking California, sickening residents—some so severely they've had to go to the hospital—interrupting daily life and threatening to upend holiday plans.

Illness

Illness Hospital

A Call for Engagement Outside of the Exam Room

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. Physicians can often literally meet patients where they are and address the broader social determinants of health, such as housing, education, and income, which significantly impact patient well-being and illness prevention.

Chronic Disease Management

Chronic Disease Management Community Chronic Disease Education

Episode 215: Vaccine Hesitancy – with Dr. Davis and Dr. Villela

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 27, 2021

She completed her internal medicine residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. She currently serves as Chief of Family and Community Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital and is Professor and Vice Chair in the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine. and health care disparities.

Vaccination

Vaccination DO Family Medicine Internal Medicine

Researchers identify the origins of a serious cancer-like illness in children

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The origins of the serious cancer-like disease Langerhans' Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) have been identified by researchers from Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with Karolinska University Hospital. The findings presented in Science Immunology may lead to new, targeted treatments.

Illness

Illness Hospital

Episode 6 – Clinical Unknown with Rabih – Raynaud’s Syndrome

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Erin Chew presents a clinical unknown to Rabih Download CPSolvers App here Schemas Illness Script Tweetorial #1 Tweetorial #2 Show Notes References Guest Erin Chew, M.D. She is an intern in the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Chew graduated from Baylor College of Medicine.

Clinic

Clinic Internal Medicine Illness Families

Episode 85: Virtual Morning Report unknown with Dr. Avital O’Glasser & CPSolvers, Jack and Reza – fever, joint pain & rash

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 6, 2020

Avital O’Glasser Avital O’Glasser is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She is the medical director of OHSU’s hospitalist-led Pre-Operative Medicine Clinic, as well as The Curbsiders Kashlek Memorial Hospital Chief of Perioperative Medicine.

Internal Medicine

Internal Medicine Complication Hospital Diagnosis

The Case of the Dropping Albumin

"We feel alone and not listened to": Somali, Hmong and Latin American Parents Perspectives on Pediatric Serious Illness [Child and adolescent health]

Trending Sources

The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Clap Outs

Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Common brain network for psychiatric illness discovered

ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness

This safety-net hospital doctor treats mostly uninsured and undocumented patients

Predicting suicide risk with the Oxford Mental Illness and Suicide (OxMIS) model

There's a spike in respiratory illness among children — and it's not just COVID

Clinical Strategies and Challenges of Psychiatrists in Accra, Ghana [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Top 10 Conditions Treated at an Acute Care Facility

Telemedicine reduces hospital transfers for very ill kids at rural, community emergency departments

Low Lumbar Muscle Mass Linked to ICU Mortality

ICU Statin Therapy Tied to Significant Sepsis Mortality Reduction

Inside a children's hospital: Struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness

Taking Control of Your Health: The Benefits of Preventative Care

Seattle Children's Hospital is being inundated with respiratory illness patients

NY plan to involuntarily treat mentally ill homeless? Not entirely outrageous, psychiatrist says

High-Risk Older Adults Lack Knowledge, Awareness of RSV Vaccine

Characterization and determinant factors of critical illness and in-hospital mortality of COVID-19 patients in Kenya

Statin Use Linked to Reduced Mortality for Patients With Sepsis

From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Mortality and cost of severe acute pancreatitis keeps pressure on hospitals

He was stuck in a hospital for 8 months. How states can fail people with disabilities

Critical illness myopathy is a common condition in intensive care patients, finds study

Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Have you had your flu shot?

5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

A single-shot treatment to protect infants from RSV may be coming soon

4, 3, 2, 1 And 90.

CDC Vaccine Expert Resigns After RFK Jr. Cuts Advisers

Mental illness surge among Swiss girls, young women: statistics

Despite pleas from pediatric groups, Biden balks at declaring RSV a health emergency

Episode 39 – Supraventricular Tachycardia with Dr. Zaven Sargsyan

'No space': German hospitals overwhelmed by sick kids

Patient Testimonial – Eduardo Sanchez Castillo

How to avoid illness as COVID-19 and the flu surge

A Call for Engagement Outside of the Exam Room

Episode 215: Vaccine Hesitancy – with Dr. Davis and Dr. Villela

Researchers identify the origins of a serious cancer-like illness in children

Episode 6 – Clinical Unknown with Rabih – Raynaud’s Syndrome

Episode 85: Virtual Morning Report unknown with Dr. Avital O’Glasser & CPSolvers, Jack and Reza – fever, joint pain & rash

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