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Current Issue: January 2012
Featured articles
Cover Story
Think before you stick
Protocol changes for blood draws can reduce hospital-acquired anemia
Research shows a clear association between diagnostic phlebotomy and hospital-acquired anemia in some patients.
Medical Education
Hospitalists set the funny bone
Teaching trainees when and how it's OK to joke
Residents should be taught to keep their humor well within the safe zone, experts agree.
Conference Coverage
Comanaging pressures: Kidney Week experts advise on hypertension
Treatment advice for surgical, neurological and pregnant patients
Certain specialized circumstances can make high blood pressure particularly problematic.
Info + forms = good informed consent
Good informed consent should be a concern for any physician who performs a procedure with risks.
Hopes and fears abound at National Bundled Payment Summit
Experts discuss upcoming Medicare pilots
Speakers were optimistic about the potential to reduce health care costs without decreasing profits.
Q&A: Pin Li, MD
Lost in transit
Researcher identifies flaws in transfers from the ICU
Even when errors didn't occur, communication patterns appeared less than ideal.
Perspectives
Newman's Notions
Food for thought
A Thanksgiving meal develops disturbing medical connotations.
Clinical medicine
Test Yourself
Test yourself: MKSAP quiz on high-value, cost-conscious care
These cases and commentary, which address high-value, cost-conscious care, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
Research Update
Recent Research
Hospitalist care and post-discharge costs, very elderly patients and vitamin K thromboprophylaxis, and more.
ACP Hospitalist Weekly
From the February 1, 2012 edition
- Hospitalist practice models have little effect on job satisfaction, burnout, survey finds
- Hospital stays involving C. diff leveled off between 2008 and 2009
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