Hospital Medicine

Racial and ethnic disparities did not substantially improve between 2005-2015 for patients with end-stage kidney disease.

PCSK9 inhibitor therapy within 24 hours after PCI was shown to bring LDL-C levels down closer to guideline-recommended goals.

More than 20% of children examined in Wuhan showed various ocular manifestations.

Approximately 11.7% of nearly 90,000 hospitalized patients with confirmed influenza suffered from an acute cardiovascular event.

Categorizing baseline SCr as the median value over the preadmission period could be the least biased estimate of the baseline renal function.

SalivaDirect eliminates the need for nucleic acid extraction kits, enhancing the potential capacity for testing.

From immunity building to plasma research, a look at some lesser efficient practices adopted or proposed during the pandemic.

Less than 1% of nearly 500,000 hospitalized patients required kidney replacement therapy.

Additional monitoring is needed among patients receiving opioid therapy.

David Ho, MD, likens and contrasts the pandemic to 3 other viral outbreaks and their respective responses.

An analysis of chest X-rays suggests people of color are more likely to have increased disease severity.

A famed virologist weighs in on the country's earliest shortcomings—and how they can still be resolved today.

New findings suggest differing chronic lung diseases are associated with varying risk factors among COVID-19 patients.

Approximately 5% of the 13,000 TBI patients examined died during the course of the study.

World-leading virologist and AIDS researcher David Ho, MD, joins the inaugural podcast episode.

The pandemic has burdened blood drives nationally. A new sickle cell drug keeps patients from needing as many transfusions.

A large proportion of nAMD patients treated with anti-VEGF therapies continue to have active disease and fluid.

More than 40% of critically ill patients died within 90 days regardless of timing of renal-replacement therapy.

Patients face higher mortality risk if they are readmitted to a different hospital following emergency general surgery.

AI can help make up for missed appointments and screening.

Of the 21 patients included in the study with COVID-19 and skin rash, 29% had enanthem.

Chronic kidney disease and kidney failure represent the most common comorbidities for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infections.

What does personalized outpatient care look like for a cardiology institute during the pandemic?

Investigators explain how telemicrosurgery can be performed over a 5G network.

It is important to understand how and why disease risk and health burden vary by socioeconomic status.