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May 2010
Featured Articles
Cover story
It takes a community
The Camden Coalition in New Jersey and other health care systems are addressing the problem of hospital readmissions by bringing people together at the local level.
Your Career
Heeding the call in Haiti
Volunteer physicians help to rebuild the troubled nation’s health system.
Mastering safety
New graduate programs focus on health care quality and safety.
Q&A: Adam Keene, MD
Putting MRSA to the test
Screening patients may keep infection from taking hold.
Success story
Fewer catheters … fewer infections
The Michigan Health & Hospital Association reduced unnecessary use of catheters and thereby catheter-associated UTIs.
Perspectives
Letter from the editor
Reducing readmissions is top of mind for many hospitals today, yet efforts have been met with varying degrees of success. Hospitals and physicians in some communities, like Camden, N.J., have taken a comprehensive approach,
Newman’s notions
Heroic measures
A locum tenens has a strange experience at a new hospital.
Student hospitalist
Medical students must focus on patient-centered care
In the current context of rising clinical demands, long waiting lists and shorter appointment times, it’s more important than ever to communicate effectively and foster a strong therapeutic relationship.
Your Practice
Technology traps
Intra-abdominal hypertension monitoring
Our columnist outlines the dangers of intra-abdominal hypertension and its sequela, abdominal compartment syndrome.
Coding Corner
Documenting altered mental status
When a patient is admitted with an acute change in mental status, the physician should drill down to determine the known or suspected causes of the change.
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself
Acute kidney injury
The following cases and commentary, which address acute kidney injury, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
FDA update
Clopidogrel gets new warning
Drug warnings, recalls, approvals
Research news
Journal watch
Recent studies of note.
In the news
HCAP guidelines, PCI and STEMI, and more
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From the September 1, 2010 edition
- Statin prescriptions at discharge increasing in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage
- Black and low-income patients more likely to leave hospital against medical advice, be readmitted
Cartoon Caption Contest
This issue's winning cartoon caption was submitted by Patricia J. Peterson, FACP, in practice in Longview, Wash., who will receive a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program or service. Thanks to all who voted!
"Did you say you were a little horse? Or a little hoarse?"
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