Critical Care
Career
Hospitalists need critical care training pathway
We strongly support the family medicine track having a critical care training pathway, and at the same time encourage internal medicine graduates...
News
Oral iron of no benefit in heart failure with iron deficiency
High-dose oral iron therapy doesn’t improve exercise capacity in the estimated 50% of patients with symptomatic heart failure who also have iron...
Clinical
When one patient decompensates, others on the ward may follow
How does the clinical decompensation of a ward patient affect the likelihood of another patient’s decompensation?
Clinical
Using shock index in the ED to predict hospital admission and inpatient mortality
Can shock index (SI) in the ED predict the likelihood for hospital admission and inpatient mortality?
News
Hospital infections top WHO’s list of priority pathogens
WHO is urging governments to focus antibiotic research efforts on a list of urgent bacterial threats, topped by several increasingly powerful...
Clinical
Patient-to-intensivist ratios can influence patient mortality
Is there variation in patient-to-intensivist ratios (PIR) across ICUs, and does that ratio affect hospital mortality?
Clinical
Procalcitonin guidance improves antibiotic stewardship
Use of the procalcitonin assay has been shown to reduce antibiotic utilization without an increase in adverse outcomes.
Practice Management
Sneak Peak: The Hospital Leader Blog
There is no doubt transparency is important, and patients should be informed when hospitalized as outpatients instead of as inpatients. But the...
Clinical
When one patient decompensates, others on the ward may follow
Clinical question: How does the clinical decompensation of a ward patient affect the likelihood of another patient’s...
Clinical
Using shock index in the ED to predict hospital admission and inpatient mortality
CLINICAL QUESTION: Can shock index (SI) in the ED predict the likelihood for hospital admission and inpatient mortality?