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Extensive Hospital Medicine track offers the best clinical education in internal medicine for hospitalists.

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Cover story

MDs phone homes

MDs phone homes

By Stacey Butterfield

Among all the advanced technologies available to hospitalists, one of the best tools for helping recently hospitalized patients thrive may be one of the oldest and simplest: the telephone.

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Communication

Getting to know you

Getting to know you

By Janet Colwell

Daily face-to-face meetings improve outcomes and teamwork.

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Q&A

Improving sleep by shaking up routines

By Jessica Berthold

Melissa Bartick, ACP Member, found that simple changes can reduce patients’ requests for sedatives.

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Success story

Watchful eyes make for clean hands

By Jan Bowers

Greater Baltimore Medical Center used signed pledges and volunteer auditors to dramatically improve hand hygiene rates.

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Technology traps

The pulmonary artery catheter: To use or not to use?

By Lisa Kirkland, FACP

Our columnist discusses the pros and cons.

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Coding Corner

Consultation confusion

Consultation confusion

By Deborah Hale

CMS stopped paying for services billed as consultations as of Jan. 1, 2010. What does this mean for hospitalists?

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