Howard Abrams

TL;DR: It is recommended that clinicians estimate local overall complication rates (pretest probabilities) for the clinically relevant populations in their settings before they apply the predictive properties (likelihood ratios) demonstrated in this study in order to calculate cardiac risks for individual patients (posttest probabilities).

TL;DR: The index is a modified version of an index that was previously generated by Goldman and coworkers on a set of 1001 consecutive patients and prospectively validated in the clinical setting on 455 patients.

TL;DR: The 2017 HF guidelines provide updated guidance on the diagnosis and management that should aid in day-to-day decisions for caring for patients with HF, with attention to strategies and treatments to prevent HF, to the organization of HF care, comorbidity management, as well as practical issues around the timing of referral and follow-up care.

TL;DR: Patients with limited English proficiency have longer hospital stays for some medical and surgical conditions and the effect of communication barriers on outcomes of care in the inpatient setting requires further exploration.

TL;DR: Evaluating the use of smartphones to improve communication on internal medicine wards found residents strongly preferred emails as opposed to telephone calls as the prime method of communication and nurses perceived a reduction in the time required to contact a physician.