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July 2008

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Hospitalist leaders debate the costs and benefits of patient satisfaction surveys

Striving for 100% customer satisfaction

Striving for 100% customer satisfaction As patient satisfaction figures more prominently in health care and quality measurement, some worry that hospitals' standard patient satisfaction surveys don’t accurately measure hospitalist care. How should hospitalists prepare for future use of satisfaction data?
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Letter from the Editor

Write to the editor

Letters to the Editor Readers respond to CAM, alternative scheduling

Cartoon caption contest

Cartoon caption contestJuly’s winning entry

 

 

 

 

In the News

Report: Many elderly take inappropriate prescription drugs

News Update

Quick response, teamwork protected patients during heparin recall
As pharmacists monitored hospital supplies, physicians and nurses monitored patients

Internal Medicine 2008

For glucose control, balance is key

An expert offers tips on finding the right insulin combination.

Don't just do something, stand there

Less can be more for the hospitalized elderly.

Update in hospital medicine highlights sepsis, community-acquired pneumonia

New research could help guide treatment.

Fight burnout while fostering experience

Investing in hospitalist programs now can pay off later.

Medical ethics in the line of fire

Physicians debate dilemmas posed by the war on terror.

FDA Update

FDA UpdateDrug alerts, recalls, approvals

 

 

 

Web Watch

eb WatchSwap innovation ideas online

 

 

 

Clinical Medicine

Test yourself: Seizures

Research News

Journal watch

Recent studies of note

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ACP Hospitalist Weekly

From the March 10, 2009 edition

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ACP HospitalistWeekly wants readers to create captions for this cartoon and help choose the winner. Pen the winning caption and win a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program or service.

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