More articles from Commentary
- Failure to thrive in hospitalized older adults: More than a ‘social admission’
Failure to thrive documented as an admitting diagnosis presents an opportunity to identify, articulate, and begin to ameliorate the true underlying causes of the patient’s health deficits.
- Benzodiazepines: Caught between patient needs and guidelines
Negative sentiment about benzodiazepines has intensified in recent years, and there is increasing emphasis on deprescribing even for people who have had no ill effects from them.
- Collaborative musculoskeletal care: The role for chiropractors
Integrating chiropractors into multidisciplinary care settings can help support guideline-concordant care and may free up internists to see more patients with other problems.
- Recreational cannabis legalization: Potential implications for individual and community health
The authors discuss evidence on the effects of legalized recreational cannabis on overall cannabis consumption, crime, traffic safety, and individual and community health.
- Respiratory virus season: Strategies for successful navigation
The authors review the burden, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus infection.
- Matter of the heart: Prioritizing harm reduction in managing infective endocarditis associated with injection drug use
Despite specialty society recommendations, many patients do not receive treatment for substance use disorder in conjunction with heart disease treatment.
- The PRECISE trial: How should patients with chest pain be tested?
Can a risk score identify individuals with chest pain who can safely forego testing?
- Effective but inaccessible antiobesity medications: A call for sharing responsibility for improving access to evidence-based care
The potentially transformative benefits of second-generation obesity medications have yet to be realized because many patients lack access to these medications.
- Vaccine hesitancy in the time of COVID: How to manage a public health threat
It is important to empower patients to be their own advocates while helping them sort through the data on vaccines, emphasizing what we know and where uncertainty remains.
- Providing comfort: Caring for patients who wish to die in their home country
The authors offer a framework for providing equitable care to terminally ill patients who seek the comfort of dying at home.