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Improving access to clinical data on transferred patients: Important work to improve health information exchange during #IHT. 🚒 Funding by AHRQ bit.ly/3T0e6U7 earthfm Lipika Samal David Bates Eric Goralnick #VisualAbstract: Joe Thomas, MD, FHM

How many of your patients are on antibiotics?💉 This article debunks 10 common myths about antibiotic💊 use in hospitals to promote optimal use for all patients, impacting not just those on antibiotics but also those around them.👨‍👩‍👦 #IDTwitter #MedEd bit.ly/3uG8YdX htt

U.S.-born Black residents in internal medicine programs continue to face knowledge assessment bias according to a new analysis published in Annals by American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM): ow.ly/O1fR50QlcFN

To bring in the new year, here are the articles I thought about the most in 2023 that might have affected my practice in hospital medicine in a safety net hospital

Polymyalgia rheumatica, an inflammatory disease, produces pain and stiffness - mainly in the shoulders and pelvic girdle. It almost exclusively affects people over 50 years old. Explore an up-to-date overview: hubs.li/Q02f3pjK0

"What do we know about diagnostic error & missed diagnostic opportunities in Hospital Medicine? Check out this Journal of Hospital Medicine Clinical Progress Note to learn more! #Peds & #IM collaboration Trisha Marshall Julia Limes Juan Lessing #ImproveDx bit.ly/3NAAVuk

❣️⚠️🔥HIGH YIELD infographic alert! 👏🏻 These slides from episode #421 Antiphospholipid Syndrome w/ Dr. Arielle Langer will help you conquer your fear 😱 of antiphospholipid syndrome!!! 🎧 thecurbsiders.com/curbsiders-pod… Prod, Writer, Show Notes, Infographics, & Cover Malini Gandhi

Our new BMJ SPCare study led by Aaron Jones shows that nearly 20% of Ontario patients die within 90 days of being designated "alternate level of care" or "ALC": spcare.bmj.com/content/early/… Focusing on the high short-term mortality of ALC patients could help with "hallway medicine".

Check out our latest- Complicated Grief symptoms very prevalent (29%) even 18m after a loss during the pandemic. Urgent need for effective, scalable treatment. uOttawa | Faculté de médecine, Faculty of Medicine @bruyerecare The Ottawa Hospital Pan-Canadian Palliative Care Research Collaborativ Palliative Medicine André Picard journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Lingering grief from #COVID19: Long-term #bereavement outcomes in family members of those who died in acute care hospitals before and during the first wave of the pandemic journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… via Palliative Medicine James Downar NeglectedNoMore

How does time scarcity contribute to patient harm or safety incidents? This research led by Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH breaks new ground by examining how demands placed on primary care physicians far exceed the time & resources allocated to them. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Learn how Kaiser Permanente developed the e-Autopsy/e-Biopsy (eA/eB) methodology, an innovation designed to compile cases of specific populations of patients and diagnoses that have quality, safety, and diagnostic issues. #AHRQ #PSNet #PSAW24 bit.ly/3T0G8gE

Get to know the ESAS a reliable, valid, and responsive tool for assessing symptom burden in patients with cirrhosis and can predict changes in quality of life. How do I know that? Because Nneka N. Ufere, MD MSCE told me Where did she tell me? Hepatology Communications journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

This week in JAMA Network: A cohort study aims to determine long-term mortality risks associated with 5 major adverse pregnancy outcomes in a large population-based cohort of women. spr.ly/6013bTnEX

One more time ! 💡 Are you delaying bisphosphonate administration after a fracture? lets break it down🦴: 📷:…mpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…… 📷: #VisualAbstract Maha Sulieman and Patricia Tran, MD, MS, FAAP (she/her)

Best retrospective #POCUS study: Gaudreau-Simard M et al. Test characteristics of POCUS in patients with acute kidney injury. Ultrasound J 2024;16:15. Mathilde Gaudreau-Simard Michael Woo Sydney Ruller @epi_rad Edward (Ted) Clark MD MSc Krista Wooller 🔗doi.org/10.1186/s13089…

Addressing Ableism in Physician Well-Being Planning jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… from Ottawa GIM Dr Mike Quon !

💡 Despite public funding for private centres, cataract surgery rates have fallen for the lowest socioeconomic group. A new #ICESOntario study calls for re-evaluation of funding strategies. Read more ➡ ices.on.ca/publications/j…