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November 2011
Featured Articles
Cover Story
Top Docs
Meet our 2011 Top Hospitalists
Our fourth annual Top Hospitalists issue recognizes leaders and teachers, innovators and mentors, researchers and pioneers.
Your Practice
Clearing or clouding the mind?
Debate over antipsychotics as delirium treatment
Antipsychotics can resolve agitation in patients with delirium, but that may not provide much overall benefit.
Volunteering abroad adds meaning to medical practice
Today's physicians may spend more time at a computer than at the bedside, but not if they volunteer abroad.
Success Story
Improving outcomes with new roles
A medical center in Vero Beach, Fla., reduced code blues and implemented multi-disciplinary rounds through a patient safety and quality initiative.
Q&A: Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, FACP
Assess before anticoagulating
Recent ACP recommendations cover assessment of VTE risk and use of prophylaxis
Three new evidence-based recommendations from ACP point out that VTE prophylaxis is not as simple as some might think.
Perspectives
Letter from the Editor
We're thrilled to present you with our fourth annual Top Hospitalists issue, highlighting excellent work in the hospitalist community.
Letter to the Editor
A reader weighs in on the seven on/seven off schedule.
Newman's Notions: Life is sweet
One thousand years before Hippocrates, healers knew that the passing of too much urine was a bad sign.
Perspectives: Bath salts that were never meant for a tub
You might not understand the nicknames Meow-Meow, Ivory Wave and Powdered Rush, but you probably have patients who do.
Student Hospitalist: Trousseau, thrombosis and cancer
Physicians and students can learn by contemplating how history intersects with their daily practice
From the Blog: Last night an RN saved my life
When I was a brand-spanking-new intern, I took an ICU call that was so scary it nearly gave me PTSD.
Your Practice
Coding Corner
Whose documentation counts?
Understanding whose documentation can actually be used for inpatient coding purposes is often a source of confusion and controversy.
Clinical Medicine
Your Practice
Three new evidence-based recommendations from ACP point out that VTE prophylaxis is not as simple as some might think.
Test Yourself
Test yourself: Delirium
These cases and commentary, which address delirium, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
FDA Update
Warnings on citalopram, ondansetron; polypill approved
Details on new warnings for higher doses of citalopram hydrobromide, and more.
Research Update
Recent Research
Short-term NSAIDS and MI risk, VTE after colorectal surgery, and more.
In the News
Comparing clinical decision rules for PE, U.K. guidelines on preventing delirium, and more.
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- Updated guidelines released on antithrombotic therapy, thrombosis prevention
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Cartoon Caption Contest
This issue's winning cartoon caption was submitted by Bridget M. McCandless, MD, FACP, from Kansas City, Mo. Thanks to all who voted!
"I didn't think this is what you meant by balloon angioplasty."
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ABIM Maintenance of Certification for Hospitalists
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