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Heating Up: Febrile Neutropenia for the Hospitalist
July 1, 2025
“You will encounter neutropenic fever in your career as a hospitalist,” emphasized David Goese, MD, an academic hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at the Northwestern University...
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TADA! No Magic Tricks Required: Evidence-Based Delirium Management for the Hospitalist
July 1, 2025
Hospital-acquired delirium is a relatively common condition encountered by hospitalists that continues to pose several ongoing challenges, particularly in the realms of diagnosis and management. In...
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Setbacks, Disparities, and Long-Term Progress in Healthcare for LGBTQIA+ Individuals
June 2, 2025
During his adolescence in conservative Virginia, Ian Jenkins felt isolated and alone as he began getting in touch with his gay identity. He didn’t know any gay people, and they weren’t portrayed...
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Non-Medical Consequences: The 6th Element of Informed Consent
May 1, 2025
Informed consent is critical to the daily practice of medicine. Conversations about the risks and benefits of treatment options are both a legal requirement and an ethical duty. However, another...
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The Transformative Role of POCUS in Hospital Medicine
May 1, 2025
POCUS is a new column on point-of-care ultrasound. This column aims to explore evolving clinical applications, educational advancements, and the clinical impacts of POCUS through the insights of...
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What Hospitalists Should Know About ICE Visits
April 18, 2025
In the course of a hectic day with a huge patient load, the last thing a hospitalist might expect to handle is a visit from immigration officials demanding access to a patient the federal government...
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Language Discordance Increases Risk of Hospital Readmissions
April 1, 2025
Clinical question: Does language discordance increase hospital readmissions or unplanned emergency department (ED) visits? Background: Studies have shown that language discordance impacts...
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Moderate IV Fluid Resuscitation is the Goldilocks of Sepsis Mortality in ICU Patients
April 1, 2025
Clinical question: In patients presenting to the intensive care unit (ICU) for sepsis, which intravenous (IV) fluid resuscitation strategy (restrictive, liberal, or moderate) is optimal for lower...
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5 Best Practices and Resources for Interhospital Transfers
April 1, 2025
Transfer of patients between hospitals has long been a part of hospitalist life, and most hospitalists can recall any number of challenging situations. Driven by a desire to improve these situations...
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Implementing and Evaluating a DBN Initiative in a Large Tertiary Care Urban Hospital
January 1, 2025
Clinical question: What is the impact of implementing discharge before noon (DBN) initiatives on discharge time and other factors such as length of stay (LOS), 30-day readmission, and ED boarding...