Eight of our Duke GIM faculty members recently published articles in The Hospitalist, the official news magazine of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Our hospital medicine authors read notable recent articles pertinent to hospital medicine and wrote these brief take away points to help keep other hospitalists abreast of updates in the medical literature. Click on a title below to read the full article online.
- Aspirin and warfarin together leads to increased bleeding without reducing thrombotic events - By Dr. Adam Wachter (June 9, 2020)
- Catheter ablation of AFib improves quality of life more than medications do - By Dr. Neil Stafford (June 8, 2020)
- QI initiative can decrease unnecessary IV treatment of asymptomatic hypertension - By Dr. Poonam Sharma ( June 5, 2020)
- Patients’ perceptions and high hospital use - By Dr. Danielle Richardson (June 4, 2020)
- Reducing low-value preop care for cataract surgery patients - By Dr. Shree Menon (June 3, 2020)
- Evaluating complications of midline catheters - By Dr. Yasmin Marcantonio (June 3, 2020)
- Short medication regimen non-inferior to long regimen for rifampin-resistant TB - By Dr. Aparna Kamath (June 1, 2020)
- Early or delayed cardioversion in recent-onset atrial fibrillation - By Dr. Rami Abdo (May 29, 2020)