Evidence suggests that the DASI score used in combination with the RCRI or a similar risk scoring tool is a more accurate predictor of adverse events and mortality than subjective assessment of func

Primary care preps patients perioperatively

An updated guideline on best practices for perioperative cardiovascular management offers critical changes to how primary care physicians can best assess and prepare patients for noncardiac surgery.

Teamwork needed to fight challenges to rural health care

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Our challenge to live, thrive through ‘interesting times'

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Tests and interventions for perioperative risk have proliferated as have risk calculators giving physicians choices maybe too many about management Image by Adobe Stock-Pawel

Tallying the cardiac risk calculators

Predicting and addressing the cardiac risks a patient faces with surgery have changed a lot since the first calculator for this task was published in 1977.

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Postdischarge care: When a phone call is not enough

Postdischarge contact with patients had no significant effect on returns to the ED or the hospital, one study found.

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Looking at ‘long COVID,’ five years later

An expert explains progress and knowledge gaps related to postacute sequelae of COVID-19, also known as long COVID.

From head to toe

An expert explains ‘wrinkle signs' as a positive marker for resolving fluid volume.

Get involved in advocacy early and often

Early career physicians can add political advocacy to their armamentarium.

First rapid-acting insulin biosimilar approved

This column reviews recent recalls, alerts, and approvals.

Lessening EHR burden through alert, message settings

As a critical first step, practices and systems should gather data on the frequency and type of each alert or message and actions taken in response to them.

MKSAP Quiz: 2-week history of dysphagia

A 70-year-old woman is hospitalized for a 2-week history of dysphagia to solids and odynophagia. She has locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. Following a physical exam and other procedures, what is the most appropriate treatment?

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