Hospital Medicine News

• Doctors Spend About 16 Minutes Per Patient in EHR For each patient they see, doctors spend about 16 minutes using electronic health records to do things like review charts, document diagnoses and treatment plans, and order lab tests and other things patients need, a U.S. study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• Wearable May Help Spot Afib, but Doctors Still Required A smartwatch band with integrated electrodes to produce an electrocardiogram (ECG) might be able to help detect atrial fibrillation, but not as well as a traditional ECG machine used in a hospital, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• 'UroLeak 2020' Gave Early Look at Urology Match Results Some medical students accessed their Urology Match Day results before the official release.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2020
• Too Old for New Heart? Germany Faces Dearth of Organ Donors Siegfried Richtsteig has been waiting in hospital for more than 130 days for a heart that would allow him to do the things he enjoyed most, like playing with his grandchildren, before a stroke damaged the organ beyond repair.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• Pharmacy Chains Sue Ohio Physicians Over Opioid Prescribing The suit is in response to litigation against pharmacies by Ohio counties; individual physicians not named in the action.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2020
• Alert Cardinal Health Surgical Gowns May Not Be Sterile, FDA Warns Facilities should immediately stop using Level 3 surgical gowns made by Cardinal Health, and PreSource procedural packs that contain the gowns, because of sterility concerns.
  News Alerts, January 17, 2020
• Magnesium Disorders Up Hypocalcemia Risk After Thyroidectomy Hypocalcemia occurred in nearly 20% of patients following thyroidectomy in the large study, however, most cases resolved at 1 year.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2020
• Alert FDA Approves CVD Benefit for Once-Weekly Semaglutide Information regarding cardiovascular safety was also added to the label of the daily oral semaglutide formulation.
  FDA Approvals, January 17, 2020
• Erythropoietin Fails to Stem Death, Neurodevelopmental Problems in Extreme Preemies The hope that giving high-dose erythropoietin to extremely preterm infants would prevent death and neurodevelopment impairment appears to have dimmed.
  Reuters Health Information, January 15, 2020
• Repair of Proximal Humerus Fracture Linked to Worse Outcomes in Elderly Higher rates of surgery for proximal humerus fracture among Medicare beneficiaries are associated with increased costs, adverse events, and mortality, according to new findings in JAMA Network Open.
  Reuters Health Information, January 15, 2020
• People With Diabetes in Hong Kong Living Longer, Except the Young Researchers reports an over 50% drop in overall death rates among people with diabetes living in Hong Kong from 2001-2016; younger people with diabetes less likely to experience improvement in survival, however.
  Medscape Medical News, January 16, 2020
• Thailand on High Alert for China Virus Ahead of Lunar Near Year Thai health officials are stepping up monitoring and inspection at its airports for the new mystery virus from China ahead of Lunar New Year, when Chinese visitors flock to the Southeast Asian country, a health official said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, January 15, 2020
• U.S. Warns Citizens in China Against Pneumonia Outbreak The U.S. State Department warned Americans in China about an outbreak of pneumonia in the central city of Wuhan believed to be caused by a new strain of coronavirus, and which has killed one person.
  Reuters Health Information, January 15, 2020
• Antipsychotics for Schizophrenia Linked to Lower Mortality Risk? It's widely assumed antipsychotics increase the risk of CVD and early death in patients with schizophrenia. However, new findings suggest the opposite may be true and that these agents may in fact be protective.
  Medscape Medical News, January 16, 2020
• Doctor Lets Patients 'Pay' for Surgeries With Volunteer Service Surgeon donates his time and asks only that patients and a team of people the patient recruits do hundreds of hours of service with two partner charities.
  Medscape Medical News, January 16, 2020
• CES 2020Touchless Patient Monitoring in the Works If technical, ethical, and infrastructure challenges can be overcome, no-contact patient monitoring could be the way of the future, both in the hospital and in the home.
  Medscape Medical News, January 16, 2020
• Stroke During Pregnancy May Be on the Rise in US Stroke risk factors are also increasing in young women and more needs to be done to identify and treat high-risk patients in early pregnancy, authors of a new study urge.
  Medscape Medical News, January 16, 2020
• Black, Latina Women in NYC Have More Childbirth Complications Black and Latina mothers in New York City are more likely than white women to experience severe delivery complications even when they have the similar types of health insurance and give birth at the same hospital, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 14, 2020
• Worse Functional Outcomes After Stroke Linked to Smoking
  Reuters Health Information, January 14, 2020
• Flu Shot a Mismatch for Main Strain, Season Far From Over: CDC Influenza season is still in full swing and children are especially hard hit, in part as a result of a vaccine that is poorly matched to the currently predominant strain.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2020