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November 2008

Top Docs

Meet our 2008 Top Hospitalists

Meet our 2008 Top Hospitalists

The doctors recognized in ACP Hospitalist’s first annual Top Hospitalists issue include teachers, quality improvement gurus, researchers and bloggers. They’ve focused on improving geriatric care, growing hospital admissions, facilitating transitions of care and raising staff satisfaction. ACP Hospitalist’s editorial board members sifted through the nominations and narrowed the field down to 10 Top Hospitalists, who are profiled here.

 

 

Letter from the Editor

Write to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Caring for the indigent: readers respond

Newman’s Notions

The hospitalized hospitalist

The hospitalized hospitalist

James S. Newman, FACP, recalls (somewhat fuzzily) his hip transplant

Patient Safety

Calling for backup before it’s needed

Calling for backup before it’s needed

Hospitals tackle ‘failure to rescue’ errors

Failure to rescue, the failure to identify patients with critical abnormalities and provide the resources necessary to prevent harm, was one of the top three preventable errors found in hospitals in 2004-2006, accounting for 17% of total errors. Experts offer their solutions.

Rural Medicine

Windshield time and North Dakota nice

One of the country’s least populous states offers lessons for the rest

One of the country’s least populous states offers lessons for the rest

Despite having one of the country's lowest reimbursement rates, North Dakota offers above average scores on access, quality, utilization, equity and health outcomes in recent rankings.

 

Success Story

Risk-assessment tool makes sure clots are prevented

Risk-assessment tool makes sure clots are prevented

VTE prophylaxis flourishes at the University of California, San Diego

A hospitalist creates a program to teach VTE prophylaxis, and then teaches others to spread the word.

 

Technology

Closing the loop on medication errors

Closing the loop on medication errors

Barcode systems pose challenges as well as benefits

Barcodes were supposed to prevent problems, but instead, staff developed workarounds to speed care. Ferret out the problems before fatalities occur.

 


Q&A

Finding an algorithm for heart failure

Finding an algorithm for heart failure

William T. Abraham, FACP, discusses OPTIMIZE-HF trial

The OPTIMIZE-HF study showed which symptoms predicted likelihood of in-hospital mortality from decompensated congestive heart failure and what were the most important predictive factors. Now, there's an algorithm for stratifying patients.

Quality Corner

Measure of the monthMeasure of the month: Coronary artery disease

 

 

 

FDA Update

Monitor patients with hepatic impairment who take erlotinibMonitor patients with hepatic impairment who take erlotinib

 

 

 

Clinical Medicine

Test yourself: Thromboembolism

Research News

Recent studies of note

In the News

AHRQ funds program to reduce ICU infections, and other medical updates

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