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Do physicians assume they know older patients’ wishes?
Clinicians often make inaccurate assumptions about older adults’ goals and cognitive capacity. This can lead to unwanted aggressive care or undertreatment.
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COPD symptoms untreated prior to palliative medicine referral
Many physical and psychological symptoms were untreated prior to patients with COPD being seen in the outpatient palliative medicine clinic, according to a recent survey.
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Burnout common among transplant surgeons
Forty percent of 218 transplant surgeons surveyed reported high levels of emotional exhaustion, according to a recent study conducted at the Henry Ford Transplant Institute in Detroit.
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Caregivers’ choices not always aligned with patients’ wishes
Caregivers were more likely to pay to extend an end-stage cancer patient’s life than the patients themselves were, according to a recent study.
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Clinicians: Patient, family factors obstacles to end-of-life discussions
Hospital-based clinicians see factors related to patients and family members as more important barriers to end-of-life discussions than clinician and system factors, according to the DECIDE study.
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Risk of NSAID use in patients receiving antithrombotic therapy after myocardial infarction
Among patients receiving antithrombotic therapy after MI, the use of NSAIDs was associated with increased risk of bleeding and excess thrombotic events, even after short-term treatment.
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Early, goal-directed therapy of septic shock
One thousand two hundred sixty patients with early septic shock were randomized to early, goal-directed therapy vs. usual care. Hemodynamic management according to a strict protocol did not lead to an improvement in outcome.
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Hospital wards with higher rates of antibiotic prescribing associated with increased risk for C. diff infection
A retrospective observational study found that among hospitalized patients, ward-level antibiotic prescribing was associated with a significantly increased risk for C. difficile infection beyond what would be expected with patient-level antibiotic use.
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Vasospastic angina with myocardial infarction – more dangerous than once thought?
Patients with vasospastic angina and a type II myocardial infarction have a worse prognosis than previous believed.
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Do I need atypical coverage for all non-ICU hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia?
Is the accepted treatment for CAP enough, or could we do more?