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History of Antibiotic Stewardship
- Christopher Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM
October 1, 2025
Antibiotic stewardship—the coordinated effort to optimize antimicrobial use—is integral to hospital medicine, though its origins extend much earlier than contemporary clinical programs...
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Fighting the Pandemic of Misinformation
- Joseph S. Thomas, MD, FHM
October 1, 2025
Adapted from a talk given at TEDx-Buffalo, June 2025 On November 28, 2021, scrolling through Twitter, I came across a tweet by @SailingKateMD: “Checked my ICU list after being gone for a few days...
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Boosting Patient Care: The Power of Inpatient Immunizations
October 1, 2025
What is the hospitalist’s role in helping to advance the immunization of hospitalized patients? Historically, hospitalization has been seen as an opportunity for vaccinating eligible patients....
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A Comparative View of Chinese and American Hospitals
October 1, 2025
The hospital experience can be intimidating for the uninitiated. For hospitalists, however, the hospital is a second home—an environment where we manage patient care with familiarity and...
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Improving Length of Stay and Physician Performance at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
- Mohammad Khalil, MD, FACP, FHM
October 1, 2025
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi At Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, accurately measuring the length of stay (LOS) and discharge ratios for individual hospitalists has proven to be a significant challenge....
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Poor Patient Health Literacy and Its Impacts
October 1, 2025
Understanding the complexities of health information and traversing the often obtuse, poorly organized, broader healthcare system can be difficult for even the most knowledgeable and educated...
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Recognizing and Addressing Health Literacy Barriers
- Christopher Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM
October 1, 2025
October marks Health Literacy Month, a crucial observance dedicated to highlighting the essential role health literacy plays in patient care, especially within hospital medicine. Health...
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Cardiac POCUS: A Bedside Window View of the Heart
- Elian D. Abou Asala, MD, MBA
October 1, 2025
Heart ultrasound image on a computer screen. In many hospitals across the nation, hospitalists assume leadership roles during rapid response and code blue events, especially in settings where...
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How Should Vitamin D Levels be Interpreted in Patients with IBD?
- Catherine E. Firestein, MD, MPH, FHM;
- Jonathan McIntyre, MD;
- Joseph Avalos, MD, FHM;
- Maryann Ally, MD, MPH, FACP, FHM;
- Nhan Vuong, MD;
- Stephen Antonucci, MD
October 1, 2025
A 35-year-old male with Crohn’s disease (CD) presents with diarrhea, frequent abdominal cramps, and fatigue. He is on a tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitor, infliximab 5 mg/kg infusion...
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Cystatin C in the Inpatient Setting: Enhancing Kidney Function Assessment
- Eric Signoff, MD, FACP;
- Lucy Shi, MD;
- Nandakishor Kapa, MD
October 1, 2025
A 68-year-old man on chronic steroids for amiodarone-induced thyroiditis presented with pneumonia, hypotension, and encephalopathy. Though the pneumonia resolved, his encephalopathy worsened, and...