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December 2010
Featured Articles
Cover Story
Dealing with addiction
Screening and coordinated treatment for substance abuse improve outcomes
Routine screening and treatment coordination for substance abuse are relatively rare.
Cardiac rehabilitation
Helping patients help themselves
Boosting referrals to cardiac rehabilitation
Research indicates that few eligible patients participate in a cardiac rehab program after hospital discharge.
Resource use
Too much of a good thing?
Balancing value and risks of CT scans
Possible overuse of CTs is currently attracting attention from payers, regulators and politicians, but may be dealt with most simply by individual physicians.
Conference Coverage
Avoiding common compliance pitfalls
Expert tips from the annual Medical Group Management Association meeting
Adhering to privacy rules and other compliance areas can be difficult in the fast-paced world of hospital medicine.
Why doctors fight
Personality differences play big role in conflict
One of the biggest challenges in getting physicians to work together cooperatively is the fact that they have never been trained to do so.
MGMA surveys show practice ownership, EHRs affect revenue
Separately, experts discuss switch to ICD-10 in 2013
Hospitalist-owned practices and the specialist physicians employed by them report lower revenue than practices not owned by hospitals or integrated delivery systems.
Q&A
Evidence that's not what it seems
Studies of medical futility often empirically weak
The determination of whether a treatment would be futile is one of the toughest decisions a hospitalist can face.
Success Story
Collaboration and experimentation reduce C. difficile infections
Rates drop by 73% on pilot wards at English hospital Salford Royal.
Perspectives
Letter from the Editor
One of the more frustrating experiences a hospitalist can have is to treat and discharge a substance-abusing patient, only to suspect that he or she will be right back in the hospital weeks or days later.
Newman's notions
A lesson in serendipity
Sometimes after a hard morning of rounding, I hide in my office and distract myself by reading a tome from the past.
Self-examination: The physician as patient
Chronic disease teaches value of doctor-patient relationship
Learning the science is easy. Learning what is actually important is so much more difficult.
Your Practice
Coding corner
Drug dependence and abuse
For coding purposes, the term “addiction” is not used, but is treated as synonymous with “dependence.”
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself: Alcohol abuse
These cases and commentary, which address alcohol abuse, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
FDA update
New anticoagulant and oral MS drug approved
Details on the approval of dabigatran etexilate, and more.
Research News
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Kidney decline and mortality in acute severe hypertension, and more.
In the news
Guidelines for determining brain death, and more.
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