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May 2011
Featured Articles
Cover Story
You can reduce antibiotic resistance
Leading an antibiotic stewardship program is within the reach of hospitalists at even the smallest community hospitals.
Your Practice
Rapid response systems are in place, but do they work?
After establishing rapid response systems, hospitals must follow through by measuring their effectiveness.
Pocket-sized procedures
Ultrasound images, formerly only available from machines weighing hundreds of pounds and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, can now be viewed on devices significantly smaller in both size and price.
Conference Coverage
Talking points on palliative care
Speakers at the recent National Palliative Care Summit discussed strategies for changing and improving Americans' perceptions of palliative care.
Discussing prognosis
Physicians not only overestimate prognosis, many consciously present a more optimistic prognosis to patients than they privately believe.
Q&A: Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD
Hospitals with leverage get more from insurers
A new study shows that payment rates vary widely from private insurers to hospitals. The president of the Center for Studying Health System Change talks to ACP Hospitalist about possible causes and solutions.
Success Story
Creative solutions to difficult discharges
Denver Health Medical Center's complex discharge committee helps find creative dispositions for patients who are medically ready for discharge but, for many reasons, unable to leave the hospital.
Perspectives
Letter from the Editor
This issue examines antibiotic stewardship programs, rapid response systems, pocket ultrasounds, and more.
Newman's Notions: Hospital failure
Like a conscientious physician, hospitalists must play doctor to their own facilities.
From the Blog: Lip smacks, insults and f-bombs
Some days, dealing with patients feels like a boxing match.
Perspectives: The scourge of seven on/seven off
How many soccer games have you missed because of your work schedule? How often has your spouse had to eat dinner without you?
Your Practice
Coding corner
Pneumonia
The clinical distinction between community-acquired pneumonia and health care-associated pneumonia is crucial for correct management and antibiotic selection.
Your Career
Medical education: Strategies for succeeding as an inpatient physician
Attendings should advocate that their time be protected to ensure that they can fulfill their primary responsibilities during the rotation: patient care and education.
Pulse On® Portland, ME
Pulse On® Wichita, KS
Clinical Medicine
Test Yourself
Antibiotics
These cases and commentary, which address antibiotics, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
Research Update
Recent Research
Restrictive transfusions, hospice care use, and more.
In the News
Antibiotic therapy and sepsis, reductions in MRSA infections after surgery, and more.
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