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December 2008
COVER STORY: Hospitalists learn to look beyond a cure
FEATURE: Frustrated trying to manage opioid-dependent patients?
FEATURE: Do hospitalists get a bad rap from satisfaction surveys?
NEW SERVICES: Filling the gap between observation units and the wards
COMMENTARY: The truth behind the team clichés
MARKETPLACE: A new test to target tight glycemic control
PROFILE: A new twist on a venerable literary tradition
POLL: Recruiting incentives
CODING TIPS: Confused by all the company you keep?
ANALYSIS: Stress tests: Judgment trumps evidence
PEDIATRICS: Studies that just may change your practice
PEDIATRICS: Tips for treating children with autism
WHAT WORKS: Bringing “a light touch” to prescribing guidelines
CAREER TIPS: For IMGs, a tougher immigration climate
NEWS BRIEFS: Snapshot of C. difficile shows higher incidence
FROM THE EDITOR: New opportunities to stay flexible
November 2008
COVER STORY: Is a cath lab in your future?
FEATURE: Hospitalists as rolling stones
FEATURE: UTIs: no longer another cost of doing business
FEATURE: Getting serious about perioperative delirium
Q&A: Is your group in good financial health?
COMMENTARY: A timeless classic comes to an end
MARKETPLACE: The one-stop site for quality improvement
NEWS BRIEFS: New consensus on preventing infections
CODING TIPS: New ICD-9 codes that hospitalists need to know
ANALYSIS: State-of-the-art data trip over the bottom line
Q&A: Why hospitalists and ED doctors “drop the baton”
WHAT WORKS: A musical Rx for palliative care
CAREER TIPS: In the program director’s hot seat
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Intermountain Healthcare/Logan Regional Medical Center
FROM THE EDITOR: Happy birthday to us
October 2008
COVER STORY: Why some specialists feel left out
FEATURE: What Medicare’s new payment proposals might mean for you
FEATURE: New sepsis guidelines: Treat within six hours
ANALYSIS: Doctors behaving badly
MARKETPLACE: Message board 2.0
COMMENTARY: This week’s ranking
PROFILE: A welcome break from Western medicine
NEWS BRIEFS: Palliative care delivers big cost savings
CODING TIPS: How to avoid common coding misconceptions
ANALYSIS: Study finds big gaps in barcode safety
EXPERT OPINION: Planning to hire midlevels? Consider your liability
POLL: Present on admission: What are hospitals doing about the no-pay policy?
PEDIATRIC COMMENTARY: Welcome to community medicine
PEDIATRICS: Would you recognize stroke in a child?
WHAT WORKS: One hospital’s solution to being overwhelmed at night
CAREER TIPS: What can enhance—or poison—career satisfaction?
FROM THE EDITOR: A new power base
September 2008
FEATURE: Financial support from the hospital? Not for these groups
FEATURE: Evidence that will change how you treat end-stage liver disease
MARKETPLACE: Giving patients back some dignity
Q&A: A new debate surfaces over hospital medicine
COVER STORY: Night work without burnout
COMMENTARY: “Strive for five”—not just for the food pyramid anymore
PROFILE: Designing a career for the long haul
NEWS BRIEFS: CMS sends out first PQRI payments
CODING TIPS: How to code for present on admission
Q&A: Controversy in the ICU
GUEST COMMENTARY: Getting to the heart of physician satisfaction
WHAT WORKS: Competing hospitals get ahead by playing nice
CAREER TIPS: The art of giving feedback
FROM THE EDITOR: What do private practice and night shifts have in common?
August 2008
FEATURE: Critical care for the pregnant inpatient
FEATURE: Should you be comanaging patients?
FEATURE: Clueless about what your group earns and spends?
FEATURE: The controversy heats up over steroids for COPD
COVER STORY: Can't find an attending?
COMMENTARY: Welcome to my world
MARKETPLACE: New tricks for a robust centenarian
PROFILE: Meet Dr. Happy
NEWS BRIEFS: Bad behavior takes center stage
CODING TIPS: The rules that govern critical care codes
ANALYSIS: Trying to get a handle on drug errors?
EXPERT OPINION: The dos and don'ts of exclusive contracts
PEDIATRICS: Help with apparent life-threatening events
WHAT WORKS: One hospital’s success with VTE screening
CAREER TIPS: Cutting through the job-market hype
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Sutter Medical Group/Auburn
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Upper Chesapeake Health
FROM THE EDITOR: Taking a new critical look
July 2008
COVER STORY: The push is on for multidisciplinary rounds
FEATURE: The year’s most influential studies
FEATURE: Transfusion medicine: What trigger thresholds should you use?
FEATURE: Problems with patients post-discharge? Pick up the phone
FEATURE: How to spot early warning signs of acute renal failure
COMMENTARY: Who’s taking care of you?
MARKETPLACE: Practical tips for better handoffs
PROFILE: The need for speed
NEWS BRIEFS: Medicare plans to test bundled payments
CODING TIPS: Is your documentation up to par?
ANALYSIS: Time to sign up for pay for reporting
Q&A: High error rate creates new urgency for CPOE
WHAT WORKS: One program’s big payoff from “an extra set of eyes”
CAREER TIPS: How to get ahead in academia
FROM THE EDITOR: Taking full advantage when the stakes are low
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: NorthEast Inpatient Services/Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Primary Critical Care Medical Group
June 2008
FEATURE: It's time to get up to speed on wound care
FEATURE: Seven strategies to help you manage—or prevent—delirium
FEATURE: Avoiding both overdiagnosis and undertreatment in critical care
FEATURE: New thinking on resuscitation techniques
COVER STORY: Working with short-timers
COMMENTARY: “You don’t need a weatherman ... “
MARKETPLACE: Infection patrol
PROFILE: One physician’s focus on a tiny scourge
NEWS BRIEFS: More conditions may land on the no-pay list
CODING TIPS: The right and wrong ways to bill subsequent visits
ANALYSIS: Why heart failure patients are really readmitted
Q&A: Hospitalists miss the mark on handheld ultrasound
PEDIATRIC COMMENTARY: Children are not small adults ... except when they are
PEDIATRICS: The final word on pediatric rapid response teams?
WHAT WORKS: New options for handling disruptive patients
CAREER TIPS: What can you negotiate in a contract?
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Affiliated Medical Associates/Morristown Memorial Hospital
May 2008
FEATURE: High-yield strategies for cranial nerve testing
FEATURE: Acute heart failure: how to cut down on "frequent flyers"
FEATURE: Should hospitalists admit hip fractures?
FEATURE: Who should you screen for MRSA?
COVER STORY: Having trouble finding good moonlighters?
COMMENTARY: The new survey says ...
MARKETPLACE: Ultrasound system helps detect patient falls
PROFILE: Working locally to reduce disparities
NEWS BRIEFS: New recommendations target hospitalist shortage
CODING TIPS: Can’t tell a consult from a referral? Read on
EXPERT OPINION: Red flags to look for in employment contracts
ANALYSIS: Admitting from the ED? Welcome to the gray zone
WHAT WORKS: How to make your point with pictures
CAREER TIPS: Taking a grown-up approach to growing your business
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Southeast Alabama Medical Center
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Cogent Healthcare
FROM THE EDITOR: Do you know how—and how much—hospitalists are paid?
April 2008
COVER STORY: Should hospitalists be caring for these patients?
NEUROLOGIC EMERGENCIES FOR HOSPITALISTS: High-yield strategies for a neurological exam
FEATURE: What should you say after “hello”?
PEDIATRIC HOSPITALIST: Too much free water?
DIABETES MANAGEMENT: How to match insulin regimens to different nutritional needs
COMMENTARY: Welcome to New Jersey!
MARKETPLACE: On-the-road learning
PROFILE: For this hospitalist, surgery is his oasis
NEWS BRIEFS: Go-ahead for quality initiative, PQRI’s first scorecard
NEWS: Wall Street gives hospital medicine a warm welcome
CODING TIPS: The right way to bill consults
WHAT WORKS: One hospital’s successful efforts to vanquish pressure ulcers
CAREER TIPS: Is moonlighting right for you?
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Mid-Columbia Medical Center
FROM THE EDITOR: Drawing the line at psychiatric co-management
March 2008
ANALYSIS: Looking for faster ways to identify heart failure patients?
NEW SERVICES: Hyperbaric therapy: growing demand for a new service line
FEATURE: New thinking on antibiotic timing in CAP patients
FEATURE: Hospitalists grapple with Rx drug abuse
COVER STORY: Tired of running from floor to floor?
COMMENTARY: Is it time to call the admitologist?
PROFILE: A physician with a mission
MARKETPLACE: High-tech communication
NEWS BRIEFS: New services snapshot, VTE prophylaxis rates, Online survey results, hospitalist CME, more
CODING TIPS: Charting 101: making sure your documentation is on time and legible
WHAT WORKS: Supervising procedures: too important to leave to residents?
CAREER TIPS: New skills for front-line hospitalists: interviewing candidates
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: St. Joseph Hospital
FROM THE EDITOR: Hospital medicine’s next round of innovations
February 2008
CASE STUDY: How to parse out the possible causes of meningitis
COMMENTARY: The five stages of hospital medicine
PROFILE: Bridging the inpatient-outpatient gap
MARKETPLACE: Hospitalists get their own suite of software
CODING TIPS: Answers to your questions on observation and discharge codes
ANALYSIS: “Wake up and breathe” protocol cuts patient time on the ventilator
PEDIATRIC HOSPITALIST: Should you start a pediatric sedation service?
FEATURE: Great quality stats? Stellar satisfaction scores? Tell that to your customers
COVER STORY: How does your group measure up to the latest study on hospitalists?
WHAT WORKS: Hospitalists “geriatricize” the discharge process
CAREER TIPS: What does it take to be a good leader?
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Aspirus Hospitalists
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: HCA-Hospital Corporation of America
NEWS BRIEFS: Time-to-shock results, UTI prevention, research grants
FROM THE EDITOR: Has hospital medicine reached a turning point?
January 2008
COMMENTARY: hos-pi-tal-ism: Should we claim the word for our own?
MARKETPLACE: New reference takes aim at all of hospital medicine
CODING TIPS: The CPT code changes that hospitalists need to know
NEW SERVICES: A preop evaluation service delivers unexpected benefits
FEATURE: How much do you boost your hospital’s bottom line?
FEATURE: ACS patients: strategies for testing, anticoagulation and assessment
COVER STORY: Feeling pressure to admit surgical patients?
FEATURE: Managing symptoms? Try looking beyond disease
WHAT WORKS: How to put your staffing in synch with admissions
NEWS BRIEFS: Incentive bonuses, night work, missed periop opportunities, more
CAREER TIPS: How to design quality incentives
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Galen Inpatient Physicians/Regional Medical Center of San Jose
FROM THE EDITOR: Are you being rewarded for the value you bring?
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