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Pediatric in the Literature
- Brian M. Pate, MD, FAAP;
- Suraiya Rahman, MD
May 1, 2005
Calicitonin Precusors and IL-8 as a Screen Panel for Bacterial Sepsis; Which Tests are Helpful and Cost-Effective in the Evaluation of Pediatric Syncope?; An Increase in Severe Community Acquired MRSA Infections in Texas; TheoPhylline vs. Terubutaline in Critically III Asthmatics; Can Computerized Physician Ordering Create Errors?; and Single-Dose Azithromycin for Acute Otitis Media
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In the Literature
- And Craig Gordon, MD;
- David Feinbloom, MD;
- Joseph Li, MD
May 1, 2005
Coronary-Artery Revascularization Before Elective Major Vascular Sugery; Amiodarone or a Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrilator for Congestive Heart Failure; and Clopidogrel versus Aspirin and Esomeprazole to Prevent Recurrent Ulcer Bleeding
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Practice Profile
May 1, 2005
Norwalk Hospital
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Life as a Nocturnist
May 1, 2005
Jackson Memorial Hospital is an accredited, nonprofit, tertiary care hospital and the major teaching facility for the University of Miami School of Medicine.
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Medical Student Teaching on a “Non-Teaching” Service
May 1, 2005
The Washington University Hospitalist Experience
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SHM’s Scott Flanders, MD and Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH
- Kevin/ross Public Relation;
- Lisa Freeman
May 1, 2005
Lead Multi-Hospital Patient Safety Project in Michigan
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Seven Effective Strategies of Highly Successful Resuscitations (or A New Look at an Ancient Practice)
May 1, 2005
Despite more intensive guidelines and advances in resuscitation research, the survival rate for victims of cardiopulmonary arrest remains virtually unchanged from forty years ago when modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was first described (1).
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Advancing Toward the Ideal Hospital Discharge for the Elderly Patient
- And Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD;
- Dennis Manning, MD, FACP, FACC;
- Sunil Kripalani, MD
May 1, 2005
Development of a Hospitalist Checklist and Possible SHM Consensus Statement
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Quality Tools: Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Janet Nagamine, MD;
- Mark Williams, MD, FACP
May 1, 2005
When we speak of “quality” in health care, we generally think of mortality outcomes or regulatory requirements that are mandated by the JCAHO (Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations). But how do these relate to and impact our everyday lives as hospitalists?
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The Hospital Turned Inside Out
May 1, 2005
Richard Wade
If you’re a “boomer”―one of those Americans born between 1946 and 1964―you have witnessed the most dramatic changes in history in the essential community institution called the hospital.