Journal of hospital medicine : an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Evaluation of hospital glycemic control at US academic medical centers.
To evaluate contemporary hospital glycemic management in US academic medical centers. ⋯ Despite frequent insulin use, glucose control was suboptimal. Academic medical centers have opportunities to improve care to meet current American Diabetes Association hospital diabetes care standards.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Factors associated with discussion of care plans and code status at the time of hospital admission: results from the Multicenter Hospitalist Study.
Hospital admission is a time when patients are sickest and also often encountering an entirely new set of caregivers. As a result, understanding and documenting a patient's care preferences at hospital admission is critically important. ⋯ Documentation of a CD at admission was more strongly associated with informal documentation of prehospital care wishes and where the patient was hospitalized than legal care planning documents (such as durable power of attorney), or comorbid illnesses. Efforts to improve communication between hospitalists and their patients might target local documentation practices and culture.