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December 2011
Featured articles
Cover Story
Good catch!
Reporting near misses prevents bigger mistakes later
Near miss programs help hospitals spot trends and areas for improvement.
Your Practice
The capacity to determine capacity
Tips from psych experts on assessing patient decision making
One in four medical inpatients can't make a decision. And not just about whether to have the chocolate or vanilla pudding for dessert.
Hospitalists outside the hospital
Discharge clinics fill gap between hospital and primary care
Concerns about readmission rates and care transitions are leading some hospitalists to treat patients in the outpatient setting.
Coding Corner
Evaluating and managing hospital E/M services
Key components of E/M must be documented for every encounter
Success Story
Put a number on it: Rating patient acuity
The University of Chicago Medical Center found a reliable way to transmit vital information about patient status.
Q&A: Nazima Allaudeen, MD
The challenge of predicting readmissions
Clinicians show poor ability to foresee which patients will return
It would be convenient if, along with their white coats, hospitalists were issued crystal balls.
Perspectives
Letter from the Editor
Some of this issue's topics include working with “good catch” programs, assessing patients' decision-making capacity, and improving readmission rates.
Newman's Notions: A jolly old locums
A locums assignment in a northern region leads to an unusual patient.
Student Hospitalist: Expanding laboratory services in the Land of a Thousand Hills
The author describes a trip to western Rwanda to introduce fluorescence microscopy to one hospital's laboratory.
Self-Examination: The thin callus of experience
Debra wanted to know why I was at work on a holiday. I told her I had come in for her.
Clinical medicine
Test Yourself
Test yourself: MKSAP quiz on hematology
These cases and commentary, which address hematology, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
Conference Coverage
PASHA in Argentina
The authors summarize the latest meeting of the Pan American Society of Hospitalists.
Research Update
Recent Research
Outpatient vs. inpatient PE treatment, handheld echocardiography and length of stay, and more.
In the News
Malpractice claim numbers, hospitalization rates for sepsis and septicemia, and more.
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From the February 15, 2012 edition
- Updated guidelines released on antithrombotic therapy, thrombosis prevention
- Type of neurological deficit not associated with outcomes in mild stroke
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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