Pediatrics Hospital Medicine Internal Medicine Med-Peds
A University of Colorado Department of Medicine team of physicians cross-trained in internal medicine and pediatrics is helping to bridge the care gap between the children’s and adult hospitals on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. And that team has just expanded its offerings in a way that’s rare nationwide.
Research Hospital Medicine Grant Hospitalists
What happens to patients when they’re transferred from one hospital to another has not been well studied, and national guidelines to standardize transfer procedures are lacking, says a University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty member and hospitalist. But what is known about inter-hospital transfers is troubling enough: Patients moved between acute-care hospitals often experience worse clinical outcomes and higher costs than other patients with similar conditions.
Clinical Hospital Medicine Hospitalists
While hospitals have been around for centuries, hospitalists – hospital-based physicians and other practitioners – are far more recent. In fact, the term “hospitalist” wasn’t coined until 1996 in a New England Journal of Medicine paper.
Worker Health Hospital Medicine
Clinical teams at hospitals do what often seems like superhuman work for patients. But those teams are made up of humans just like the rest of us, dealing with familiar workplace issues, like heavy workload, long hours, stress, burnout, and turnover of experienced staff.
Infectious disease Hospital Medicine Outpatient Care
A pair of University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty members, seeking to enhance patient safety, led an effort to improve the accuracy of hospital discharge orders for patients who need intravenous antibiotics.
Patient Care Hospital Medicine
In a fast-paced digital age where patients can open their test results as soon as they are available, what happens when a patient reads through complicated results without a physician there to help them understand what it all means? And what happens when a patient misinterprets bad news as good news, or vice versa?
Research Latino Health Hospital Medicine Dialysis
University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty member Lilia Cervantes, MD, MSCS, has been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), a 116-year-old medical honor society of physician-scientists. She's one of just 100 new members elected for 2024 out of 302 nominations.
Medscape
July 18, 2024
Experts debating the pressing issue of how to prioritize patients in the increasingly common scenario of loss of access or insurance coverage for anti-obesity glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist drugs argued that comorbidities and obesity severity should strongly warrant continued coverage — while offering key strategies for getting and retaining approval from payers.
McKnights Long Term Care News
July 17, 2024
Nursing home residents could greatly benefit from expanded access to palliative care, but providers need more access to standardized tools, staff education and relationships with clinicians to make informed decisions about care, specialists say.
Medscape
July 16, 2024
“One of the things we worried about was that the pandemic would make [burnout findings] look worse,” said lead author Dan Heppe, a hospitalist and associate director of the CU Internal Medicine Residency Program. “Anecdotally, residents may have had more support in our program than perhaps some other programs. Though they had long hours with very sick patients, we tried to keep going in a positive direction.”
The New York Times
July 15, 2024
Pregnant women are bombarded with advertisements — on social media, in childbirth classes, even in their doctors’ offices — urging them to bank the blood in their baby’s umbilical cord and gain “peace of mind.”
Mark Harden
