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August 2009
Featured Articles
Cover story
The most basic therapy: Food
Nutrition support experts want you to think of food as a drug. Not in the negative sense of addiction, but positively as a therapy that’s critical to helping hospitalized patients get better.
Your practice
Do you know this surgeon?
With general surgeons in increasingly short supply, more hospitals will have to bring in temporary surgeons to help fill the demand for emergency and routine surgical services.
Q&A: Denetta Sue Slone, MD, and Patricia Howell, MD
Treating trauma isn’t as scary as you think
A unique service makes hospitalists the primary physicians for certain trauma inpatients.
Expert analysis
Renal failure
When should you seek a nephrology consultation in patients with renal failure?
The student hospitalist
From Mayo to McCord: A medical student’s view
A medical student reflects on treating patients in South Africa.
Physician profile
Predicting a bright future for women in hospital medicine
Dana Tiganu, MD, brings a fresh perspective to the field.
Perspectives
Letter from the editor
Although nutrition is one of the most basic human needs, it’s often overlooked in the hospital. Studies have shown that, on average, enteral feeding meets only 50% of patients’ nutritional requirements, and it’s not uncommon for substantial caloric deficits to accumulate in the first week after hospital admission, experts say.
Patient safety
Are your patients at risk?
Dr. Peraino discusses four common causes of medical mistakes and offers tips on preventing them.
Newman’s notions
Hooked on mnemonics
Memory is elusive (and of course, it “lights the corners of my mind”—or at least Barbra Streisand’s mind). That’s why there are so many tricks to remembering things, like acronyms, acrostics, rhyming keys, the image-name technique and the keyword method.
Your Practice
Coding Corner
Reporting malnutrition
Documenting malnutrition as a secondary diagnosis helps establish the severity of an underlying illness, improves publicly reported data, and can increase reimbursement to the hospital.
Quality Corner
Measure of the month: Prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections
In accordance with a law passed by Congress late in 2006, physicians and other eligible professionals are able to receive bonus payments of a percentage (increased to 2%) of their total allowed Medicare charges, subject to a cap, by submitting information for defined quality measures.
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself
Nutrition
The following cases and commentary, which address nutrition, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
FDA update
Pacemakers, skin sanitizers recalled
Drug recalls, warnings, approvals.
Research news
Journal watch
Recent studies of note.
In the news
Swine flu resources, and more.
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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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