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December 2009
 Revisiting Inpatient HyperglycemiaNew Recommendations, Evolving Data, and Practical Implications for Implementation This activity is supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk Inc., Princeton, New Jersey. |
Featured Articles
Cover story
A bundle of joy or trouble?
Hospitalists debate prospect of bundled fee system
Bundled payments could prove the value of hospitalists or destroy their income, dramatically improve patient care or hurt outcomes, or be a return to capitation or a new way forward.
Your Career
So you want to be an academic hospitalist
For hospitalists contemplating a career in academic medicine, it may not always be easy to arrive at the right mix of clinical practice, teaching and research. Learn what to look for.
Your Practice
Results pending at discharge often stay in limbo
How can hospitalists separate the wheat from the chaff?
Handoffs from inpatient to outpatient care are a known problem area in hospital medicine, and one of the biggest opportunities for improvement could involve results of tests pending at discharge.
Mindful Medicine
Uncertain diagnosis leads doctor to dig further
Our columnists address the emotional consequences of diagnoses.
Physician Profile
Hospitalist brings leadership to locum group
Robert W. Harrington Jr. offers insight into the workforce shortage
Perspectives
Letter from the editor
With health care reform in the news, bundled payments have been getting a lot of attention. Under this plan, payers would pay a lump sum per hospital admission that hospitals and physicians would share, in contrast to the current system based on separate billing for relative value units. Bundled payments offer possible advantages, but there are possible pitfalls, too.
Letter to the editor
A reader reports on hospital medicine in Bangalore, India.
Newman’s notions
The write stuff
Have you ever been given a prescription from your physician that was completely illegible?
Your Practice
Technology traps
Pulse oximeter a valuable tool, but has limitations
With pulse oximetry, a strong, regular pulse is important to obtaining a good signal and accurate reading. Unfortunately, many critically ill patients do not have good pulses anywhere.
Coding Corner
Walking the tightrope of medical necessity
Our columnist discusses key elements of deciding the appropriate level of care for a given patient (inpatient versus outpatient or outpatient with observation).
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself
Rheumatology
The following cases and commentary, which address rheumatology, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
FDA update
Approvals expanded for HPV and flu vaccines
Warnings, recalls, approvals
Research news
Journal watch
Recent studies of note.
In the news
Mortality disparities after in-hospital cardiac arrest, and more.
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