Electronic Health Records Features

• Mortality Risk Prediction for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Learn more about the prediction models that may help identify and prioritize those patients at highest risk for in-hospital COVID-19 mortality.
  BMC Pulmonary Medicine, March 31, 2023
• Change Makers: Dr Anne Klibanski on Transforming Academic Medicine WebMD Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, MPH, speaks with Anne Klibanski, MD, on the future of academic medicine.
  Medscape, March 28, 2023
• Mar 24 2023 This Week in Cardiology   Exercise, sudden cardiac death in sports, new TAVI data, behavioral psychology, EHR doing good things, maybe, and coffee are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, March 24, 2023
• COVID-19 Bacteremic Co-Infection Increases Mortality Risk A community-acquired bacterial co-infection may put COVID-19 patients at a greater risk of in-hospital mortality, ICU admission, and mechanical ventilation.
  Critical Care, March 24, 2023
• Survival, Symptoms and Hospitalization of Older CKD Patients A better understanding of the mortality and symptom burden of older CKD patients could help guide the decision of whether to manage these patients with or without dialysis.
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, March 23, 2023
• Violence in the Great Recession Does research show a link between the Great Recession and an increase in violent events?
  American Journal of Epidemiology, March 20, 2023
• Premature Aging in Young Adult Survivors of Pediatric Cancer A new study assesses premature aging among pediatric cancer survivors as determined by a deficit accumulation index. Could this approach help identify those most at risk of age-related impairments?
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute, March 16, 2023
• Quality of End-of-life Care With Non-malignant Liver Disease This study reveals that the quality of care at the end of life is poorer for those with non-cancer liver disease than for those with liver disease caused by cancer or other non-malignant diseases.
  Liver International, March 16, 2023
• Bivalent mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness Among Immunocompetent Adults Bivalent booster doses provide additional protection against COVID-19-associated emergency department/urgent care encounters and hospitalizations, according to this CDC report.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, March 15, 2023
• Sleep Duration, Daytime Napping, and Incident IBD To what extent is sleep dysregulation associated with the risk for incident IBD? A new study looks at the potential adverse effects of short sleep duration and daytime napping.
  Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, March 14, 2023
• Time Spent Engaging in Health Care Among Patients With LVADs This study found that after discharge from implantation, patients with left ventricular assist devices spent a considerable proportion of their days engaging in health care.
  JACC: Heart Failure, March 13, 2023
• Trends in Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis Mortality An analysis of mortality data provides insight into the mortality trends for dermatomyositis or polymyositis.
  Arthritis Research & Therapy, March 10, 2023
• Camrelizumab in Inoperable or Advanced NSCLC Patients A new study provides insight into the safety and effectiveness of camrelizumab in real world NSCLC patients with inoperable or advanced disease.
  Translational Lung Cancer Research, March 10, 2023
• SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza Coinfection Among Those <18 Years Most pediatric patients coninfected with COVID-19 and influenza who were hospitalized or died had underlying medical conditions and were not fully vaccinated against flu, according to this report.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, March 10, 2023
• Long-term Exposure to Air Pollution and NAFLD and Cirrhosis Might long-term exposure to air pollution increase the risk of NAFLD and cirrhosis?
  Liver International, March 09, 2023
• Gaps in Screening and Patient Assessment for Hepatitis D Despite recommended guidelines, many hepatitis B patients are not appropriately screened for hepatitis D. What can be done to help close the gap?
  Journal of Viral Hepatitis, March 08, 2023
• COVID-19 and Other Underlying Causes of Cancer Deaths This report details differences by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and cancer type in cancer deaths with COVID-19 as the underlying cause.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, March 08, 2023
• Eptinezumab for Adolescents With Chronic Refractory Headache Is the CGRP monoclonal antibody eptinezumab safe and effective treatment for chronic, refractory headache in adolescents?
  Headache, March 06, 2023
• A Protocol for COVID-19 Transmission During Tracheostomy COVID-19 tracheostomy protocols could help reduce transmission risk during these procedures, but are these safety recommendations being properly adhered to?
  American Journal of Critical Care, March 06, 2023
• Doctors' Burden: Medscape Physician Suicide Report 2023 For some physicians, the stress of practicing medicine has become so unbearable that they contemplate or attempt suicide. Others have found ways to support their mental health.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 03, 2023