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February 2011
Featured Articles
Cover Story
ACEing geriatric care
Hospitals innovate to improve outcomes for the elderly
With their special focus, Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) units have the potential to eliminate many of the issues that make hospitalization more difficult for elderly patients.
Publishing your QI project
Enlist mentors, colleagues to help navigate the path to a polished manuscript
How do you know if your quality improvement project is a candidate for publication?
Diaries share, and help resolve, secrets of the ICU
Daily logs may help lower incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Handoff strategy cuts chitchat and confusion
The Mayo Clinic formed a team to address its main handoff problems: unpredictable schedules, inefficiency, poor communication and poor physical environment.
Conference Coverage
Careful catheter care reduces cost, complications
Expert advice from the American Society of Nephrology annual conference
The U.S. spends an estimated $2 billion annually on treating catheter-associated bloodstream infections. Learn how to help lower those costs.
Perspectives
Letter from the Editor
This issue contains articles on optimizing geriatric care, publishing a quality improvement project and preventing catheter-associated infections, among others.
Newman's Notions
Safety first
I know I need to get up and get started, get my children ready for school. . .and I have an early morning meeting to which I just can't be late.
Student Hospitalist
Hospital medicine in South America
A hospitalist-in-training reports from PASHA, the first congress of the Pan-American Society of Hospitalists, held in November in Brazil.
Your Practice
Coding Corner
Urinary catheter-associated infections: Before or after admission?
Any infection related to a device or catheter of any type is classified for coding purposes as a complication of care.
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself: Invasive procedures and complications
These cases and commentary, which address invasive procedures and complications, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
Conference Coverage
Hospital medicine precourse: From admission to discharge
Day-long Internal Medicine 2011 session will track one patient's journey
This new course offers cutting-edge information on hospital medicine.
Hands-on workshops abound at Waxman Clinical Skills Center
Internal Medicine 2011 attendees can practice intubation and central line placement, among other procedures.
Research News
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Hospitalists' cost-effectiveness, vasopressin antagonists and hyponatremia, and more.
In the News
Reporting impaired colleagues, updated guidelines on spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, and more.
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