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October 2010
Featured Articles
Cover story
The different ways hospitals pay
Incentive compensation aims to improve quality and productivity.
Your practice
Hypertensive emergencies
Not everyone with extremely high blood pressure meets the criteria.
They'll be back
Depression may pose as big a risk for hospital readmission as other, better known factors.
Q&A: Deborah R. Korenstein, ACP Member
Guidelines getting tougher on industry, but physicians are not
A survey found that physicians were comfortable accepting industry-sponsored gifts despite prohibitions against them.
Success story
Individual schedules maximize autonomy, efficiency
At Munson Medical Center in Michigan, hospitalists' workload and compensation are determined by personal preference.
Mindful medicine
When patients don't tell all
Our columnists discuss the diagnostic challenges physicians face when patients omit aspects of their histories.
Clinical skills
Learning to learn: Simulators are easy, inexpensive to make
Create, then treat, your own simulated abscess.
Perspectives
Letter from the editor
Reconciling hospitals' and hospitalists' goals isn't a simple task, but the creative use of money may make it easier.
Arsenic and Olds Lake
Could this patient have arsenic poisoning?
Student hospitalist
Goodpasture and his syndrome
Ask any medical student which disease affects the lungs and kidneys, and he or she is likely to answer Goodpasture's syndrome.
From the blog
Trusting your instincts
It's hard to call your attending at 3 a.m., especially when he's the chair of medicine.
Your Practice
Coding Corner
Accelerated hypertension
Coding terminology hasn't caught up with the currently accepted clinical diagnostic terms for severe, uncontrolled hypertension.
Clinical Medicine
National trends
Hospitalists' awareness of inpatient charges for services and tests
Hospitalists are not very aware of the charges for various services they provide, or tests they order, according to recent data.
Test yourself
Hypertension
These cases and commentary, which address hypertension, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
FDA update
Emergency contraception tablets, influenza vaccines approved
Drug recalls, warnings, approvals.
Research news
Journal watch
Recent studies of note.
In the news
Multidisciplinary teams and ICU outcomes, and more.
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