The American Journal of Medicine Blog

Literature focused on care at the end of life is flourishing. The scope of this work has been broad, including how to best communicate bad news1, 2 or discuss patient wishes at the end of life,3, 4 as well as detailing where patients are dying and how it impacts their care5 and the value of palliative and hospice care during […]

Cardiac death in a patient with symptoms and electrocardiographic changes indicative of myocardial ischemia but without available measurements of cardiac biomarkers is designated a type 3 myocardial infarction. We wanted to investigate the incidence, the frequency, and the characteristics of patients diagnosed as type 3 myocardial infarction. Methods The occurrence of deaths in a well-defined […]

The outcomes related to chest pain associated with cocaine use and its burden on the healthcare system are not well studied. Methods Data were collected from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (2001-2012). Subjects were identified by using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes. Primary outcome was a composite of mortality, myocardial infarction, […]

  The study objective was to compare the 30-day readmission rate and mortality between patients with heart failure who have persistent hyponatremia during hospitalization and patients who have their admission hyponatremia corrected before discharge. Methods This large retrospective cohort study included all adult patients admitted with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure to a tertiary-care […]

  Validated system for monitoring electronic health records in real time predicts patients at a higher risk for mortality, according to new report published in The American Journal of Medicine Hospitalized patients can deteriorate quickly, requiring prompt identification and treatment, especially since each hour of treatment delay can increase the risk of mortality. In a […]