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November 2010
Featured Articles
Cover story
Top Docs
Meet our 2010 Top Hospitalists.
Your practice
Agreeing on an ending
Hospitalists struggle with end-of-life-care disputes.
Is it peripheral neuropathy?
Learn the right way to diagnose this painful condition.
Q&A: Melissa L.P. Mattison, ACP Member
Patient safety vs. physician frustration
Warnings in a computerized provider order entry system help alert prescribers to risky drugs for the elderly.
Success story
Hospitalists cost-effective even with per diem payments
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center improved census coverage and reduced payment denials.
Perspectives
Letter from the editor
We hope some of the Top Hospitalists profiled in this issue will be new to you, as part of our mission is to shine a light on excellent, unsung work in the hospitalist community.
Letters to the editor
Readers respond to articles on coding for encephalopathy and on assisted suicide.
Day of the undead: The zombie intern
I didn't think my fellow first-years were really worried about my consuming them, but you never know about the strange prejudices of the living.
Student hospitalist
Family medicine
Before I even started medical school, friends and family were soliciting medical advice. How should medical students handle such requests?
From the blog
Owning your medical mistakes
At what point is it just your fault?
Your Practice
Coding Corner
Acute renal failure
Documentation and coding of acute renal failure can be problematic, as many different criteria may be used to define the condition.
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself
Renal insufficiency
These cases and commentary, which address renal insufficiency, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
FDA update
Warning about contrast agents, review underway on Stalevo
Drug recalls, warnings, approvals.
Research news
Journal watch
Recent studies of note.
In the news
Rehospitalizations and sickle-cell patients, prescription drug poisoning, and more.
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