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May 19, 2021 Current guidelines strongly recommend use of the therapy for cardiology, diabetes patients In a series of presentations at ACC.21, the virtual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, researchers delivered data to confirm two observations about cardiovascular outcomes in heart failure patients with or without type 2 diabetes (T2D) and/or chronic kidney disease (CDK). First, the use of SGLT2 inhibitors is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular death, worsening heart failure, and/or hospitalization for heart failure, and second, SGLT2i agents are woefully underused. In a presentation titled, “Just Go With the Flo(zin): SGLT2i Should Be Added to A Few, Some, Most, All HFrEF Patients?”, Glenn Herrington, PharmD, Ambulatory Care Cardiology Pharmacist at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, reviewed findings from EMPA-REG OUTCOME, CANVAS PROGRAM,DECLARE-TIMI 58, VERTIS CV, DAPA-HF, and EMPEROR-REDUCED to assess b ....
A study in JAMA Internal Medicine today demonstrates a sharp decline in US hospital COVID-19 mortality rates during the first 6 months of the pandemic, with wide variation across hospitals and poorer outcomes linked to higher county-level case rates. Researchers compared outcomes for 38,517 adult COVID-19 patients admitted to 955 US hospitals during an early (Jan 1 to Apr 30) and late (from May 1 to Jun 30) pandemic period. They estimated each hospital s risk-standardized event rate (RSER), which is a measure of average patient risk of 30-day in-hospital mortality or referral to hospice. The overall mean RSER for 955 hospitals was 11.8%, with a range from 9.1% to 15.7% for the best- and worst-performing hospital quintiles (absolute difference 6.59 percentage points; 95% confidence interval [CI], 6.4% to 6.8%; ....
J&K Health & Medical Edu Wing frames committee to conduct Prescription Audit in hospitals Jammu, Dec 20 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Health and Medical Education Department has framed a committee comprising doctors (Medical Superintendents) and Nodal Officers (doctors) to conduct Prescription Audit in Government Medical Colleges of Jammu and Srinagar and its Associated Hospitals. Official sources here told UNI that the Health and Medical Education Department in its order issued by the Deputy Director (Planning), the Principal GMC Jammu and Srinagar, have been asked to conduct the prescription audit in all public health facilities as per the ToRs. Kaithal, Mar 28 (UNI) There is news of the kidnapping of a woman and her two and a half year old girl from a township. In this case, the husband of the woman has filed a case in the police station of the police station.see more.. ....