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February 2010
Featured Articles
Cover story
MDs phone homes
Among all the advanced technologies available to hospitalists, one of the best tools for helping recently hospitalized patients thrive may be one of the oldest and simplest: the telephone.
Your practice
Getting to know you
Daily face-to-face meetings improve outcomes and teamwork.
Your career
Physicians and social media
Physicians today have more and more social media vehicles through which to express themselves, but mishandling those powerful online megaphones carries risks.
Q&A
Improving sleep by shaking up routines
Melissa Bartick, ACP Member, found that simple changes can reduce patients’ requests for sedatives.
Physician profile
The rock star hospitalist
Rupa Marya, MD, splits her time between the hospital and the stage.
Success story
Watchful eyes make for clean hands
Greater Baltimore Medical Center used signed pledges and volunteer auditors to dramatically improve hand hygiene rates.
Perspectives
Letter from the editor
Improving transitions of care is one of the top goals facing hospitals and hospitalists today. Happily, it’s one that doesn’t require a lot of technology to achieve.
Newman’s notions
Write it up
The source of my tension on this particular day was Karin, the incredibly intense fourth-year medical student rounding with me.
Your Practice
Technology traps
The pulmonary artery catheter: To use or not to use?
Our columnist discusses the pros and cons.
Coding Corner
Consultation confusion
CMS stopped paying for services billed as consultations as of Jan. 1, 2010. What does this mean for hospitalists?
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself
Pulmonary artery catheterization
The following cases and commentary, which address pulmonary artery catheterization, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
FDA update
New drug approved for Alzheimer’s, warnings issued on CT scans, local anesthetics
Warnings, recalls, approvals
Research news
Journal watch
Recent studies of note.
In the news
Perioperative beta-blockers, and more.
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