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December 2007
Cover Feature: Focus on Rural Medicine
Wanted: Small-town hospitalists
Hospitalists can bring some relief to short-staffed rural areas by taking over inpatient care. But as more rural communities consider implementing hospitalist programs, they find themselves faced with the same recruitment challenge that helped create the problem: a rural venue.
December '07
Physician shares the joys of rural medicine through mentoring
December '07
OIG approves medical center's payment Infection Control
Beyond the bundle: Innovative ways to prevent VAP in the intensive care unit
December '07
Success Story
Dallas hospital substantially reduces time from ED arrival to admission
Open dialogue among departments helped reform systemic flaws
December '07
Perspectives
Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates: The wrong quality measure
December '07
Q&A
A new Rx for crowded hospitals: Math
Operations management expert Eugene Litvak, PhD, brings queuing theory to health care
December '07
Conference Coverage
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: How to find, and treat, the source
December '07
The new field of NOTES
Experts debate the pros and cons of natural orifice surgery
December '07
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself: Gastrointestinal bleeding
From ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14)
December '07
Research News
Journal watch
Recent studies of note
December '07
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ACP Hospitalist Weekly
From the March 10, 2009 edition
- Current, validated med lists reduce errors on hospital admission
- Use of probiotics helps lower ventilator-associated pneumonia rates
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