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Current Issue: August 2010
Featured articles
Cover story
Failing at heart failure treatment
Readmissions for heart failure cause financial problems for hospitals and even more pressing problems for patients. Everyone from Medicare to individual physicians is focused on methods of improvement.
Your practice
Hone in on patients without a home
Patients who are homeless or teetering on the verge can present an additional set of logistics for busy hospitalists.
Conference coverage
Effects of ICU stay linger long after discharge
A significant proportion of ICU survivors develop post-traumatic stress disorder, but physicians can take steps to reduce the risk and burden.
Benefits of ICU telemedicine uncertain
Experimentation with telemedicine in ICUs has not quite lived up to expectations.
Q&A: Patrick Alguire, FACP
Core competencies peripheral in practice
The Society of Hospital Medicine considers nine procedures to be “core competencies” for hospitalists, yet many perform them so rarely it would be difficult to maintain competency.
Success story
Residency redesign helps patients and pleases doctors
Brigham and Women's Hospital redesigned its residency program to focus on integrated teaching.
Perspectives
Clinical medicine
Test yourself
Heart failure
These cases and commentary, which address heart failure, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
ACP Hospitalist Weekly
From the September 1, 2010 edition
- Statin prescriptions at discharge increasing in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage
- Black and low-income patients more likely to leave hospital against medical advice, be readmitted
Cartoon Caption Contest
This issue's winning cartoon caption was submitted by Patricia J. Peterson, FACP, in practice in Longview, Wash., who will receive a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program or service. Thanks to all who voted!
"Did you say you were a little horse? Or a little hoarse?"
ACP Internist, ACP Hospitalist win awards
Association Media & Publishing has honored ACP Internist with a 2010 silver EXCEL Award for general excellence among newspapers. The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors has honored ACP Hospitalist with a silver award for best regular department, "Your Career." More ...
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