March 2020
Bringing the hospital home
Pilot projects are providing inpatient-level care in patients' homes.
Do you still need to worry about contrast and AKI?
Experts weigh in on the balance of scans' benefits and contrast's risks.
Seeking agreement on SDOH screening
Hospitals struggle with how to handle social determinants of health.
Bringing hospital medicine to the ED
A hospitalist-led boarder service reduced length of stay.
4 concepts can help bolster age-friendly care
Apply the four principles: Medication, Mentation, Mobility, and What Matters.
The vaping injury outbreak
Hospital physicians who saw early cases of lung injuries describe their experiences.
Point-of-care ultrasound—Part 1
Three documentation components are required for reimbursement of POCUS.
Hospitals and homes
This issue looks at inpatient-level care at home, social determinants of health screening, contrast risks for kidneys, and more.
Cases from the Medical College of Wisconsin
Cases of pheochromocytoma, Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, and more.
Individual case: Polyendocrinopathy with lithium use
A patient with bipolar disorder was admitted due to hypercalcemia.
Bonus online case: Insulinoma with Whipple's triad
A patient reported repeated episodes of symptomatic hypoglycemia.