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Update: Caring for COVID-19 Patients in the Hospital
January 3, 2023
Severe cases of COVID-19 infections continue to necessitate hospitalization more than two and a half years after the pandemic first hit. A total of 26,996 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19 in...
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COVID-19 Has Shown the Power of HM
July 1, 2022
Amid the unspeakable tragedies and hardships that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the medical community are examples of stunning acts of innovation, compassion, and old-fashioned effort. Dr....
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Outpatient COVID-19 therapeutics reduce hospitalization and mortality
February 10, 2022
Matching the right patient to the right therapeutic at the right time In late 2021 and early 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for the...
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A proposed scoring system to assess COVID-19-induced coagulopathy and stratification of patients for anticoagulation therapy based on risk categories
February 3, 2022
Clinical question: Can a proposed new scoring system triage and assess risk in COVID-19 patients with coagulopathy? Dr. Ajala Background: COVID-19-induced coagulopathy (CIC), marked...
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Breakthrough infection in COVID-19-vaccinated health care workers is associated with lower levels of neutralizing antibodies but less severe disease
February 3, 2022
Clinical question: How frequent are breakthrough infections in health care workers fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and how does vaccination correlate with immune response and infectivity? ...
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Hospitalists demonstrate resiliency in the face of challenge
February 3, 2022
Dr. Verplanke As he reflected upon his days as a hospitalist and unit medical director within the division of hospital medicine at NYU Langone Health in New York, since the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Addressing the nursing shortage
January 7, 2022
Dr. Hannapel With the onset of COVID-19, the existing nurse shortage only worsened at many hospitals throughout the country. “COVID patients require an extra level of care due to the virus’s...
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Helping others find their joy
January 7, 2022
Dr. Weijen Chang My last editor’s column focused on crisis leadership, specifically the example of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s doomed attempt to cross the Antarctic, which nonetheless proved to...
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The hidden pandemic
January 7, 2022
Dr. Sekaran In the eyes of Anand Sekaran, MD, division head of hospital medicine, and medical director of inpatient services at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., it’s...
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Hospitalists combat COVID burnout
January 7, 2022
Sometimes well-being is as simple as a last-minute bike ride. At the 2021 virtual Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) annual meeting in July, someone on the planning committee asked Mike Tchou, MD, MSc...
