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September 2010

COVER STORY: Chest pain centers: opportunity knocking?

ON THE WARDS: Consultants: their proper care and feeding

Q&A: Working in chaos?

FEATURE: How do hospitalists fit into HIV care?

Q&A: Finally, some good news about CPOE

COMMENTARY: The best of times?

CODING TIPS: Coding for consults and readmissions

WHAT WORKS: How to contain an outbreak

PROFILE: An American in Paris

MARKETPLACE: Stethoscope hygiene: a brand new bag

NEWS BRIEFS: Most physicians end up being sued

PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Penobscot Bay Medical Center

FROM THE EDITOR: Getting hospitalists (and medical staff) up to speed
August 2010

COVER STORY: What's your ROI?

Q&A: COPD: (not) evidence-based care

Q&A: How safe are you from malpractice claims?

FEATURE: Sleep apnea: not just an outpatient problem any more

COMMENTARY: Suing hospitalists

CODING TIPS: Still scribbling? Watch your payments shrivel

ANALYSIS: Getting the most out of the humble whiteboard

WHAT WORKS: The big payoff with virtual telemetry

PROFILE: Some speed for summer

MARKETPLACE: Dr. Sukoku: making scheduling manageable

NEWS BRIEFS: Do you report impaired colleagues?

PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: HealthEast Care System

FROM THE EDITOR: Does better value mean more money?
July 2010

COMMENTARY: My growing list of initials

COVER STORY: Success with midlevels: How does your group stack up?

FEATURE: Getting creative with compensation

FEATURE: C. difficile, not MRSA, is now the leading pathogen in some hospitals

CODING TIPS: Making sure your patients stay admitted

Q&A: Obesity: avoiding the "teachable moment"

ANALYSIS: Warfarin dosing: Any role for genetic testing?

WHAT WORKS: Who are you going to call?

FROM THE EDITOR: No shortcuts to success with midlevels
June 2010

COVER STORY: Having problems finding your patients?

ON THE WARDS: Strategies for dealing with drug-seeking patients

FEATURE: The brave new world of information technology

FEATURE: Neurologic fallout in ICU patients

CODING TIPS: How should you bill an AMA discharge?

ANALYSIS: Preventing inpatient suicides

COMMENTARY: Where's the beef?

PROFILE: Opting for experience in a young physicians' field

NEWS BRIEFS: Early follow-up cuts heart failure readmissions

FROM THE EDITOR: Thriving on chaos, or settling down?
May 2010

COVER STORY: Hospitals want more from their hospitalists. Will your group survive?

FEATURE: Common mistakes in treating acute heart failure (and what to do differently)

ON THE WARDS: "Hey, are you the no-doc doc tonight?"

POLL: A look at hospitalist benefits

CODING TIPS: Translating a diagnosis into RVUs

Q&A: Exposing "blind spots" in diabetes screening

COMMENTARY: Welcome to New Jersey—again

MARKETPLACE: Is a hospital medicine fellowship right for you?

WHAT WORKS: Directing traffic

PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Novant Health

FROM THE EDITOR: Is your hospital married to your hospitalist program?
April 2010

COVER STORY: Are you happy?

FEATURE: The anticoagulation standoff

PEDIATRICS: Making the move from IV to PO antibiotics

CODING TIPS: The finer points of billing for observation

ANALYSIS: Thinking like a geriatrician

WHAT WORKS: Making deep cuts in ED response time

COMMENTARY: "You might be a hospitalist ... "

PROFILE: A hospitalist as FP-in-chief

NEWS BRIEFS: Med rec errors rampant at admission

LETTERS: Working with midlevels: another view

FROM THE EDITOR: Going mobile
March 2010

COVER STORY: Direct admissions: VIP treatment or risky business?

FEATURE: Say what? Issues with hospital interpreters

FEATURE: Cold front moving in

CODING TIPS: Uncompleted procedures? Here’s how to bill

Q&A: Working with midlevels: a new note of caution

WHAT WORKS: Taking the scut work out of comanagement

POLL: A look at hospitalist bonuses and incentives

COMMENTARY: One person’s trash is another one’s gold

PROFILE: The hospitalist as impresario

NEWS BRIEFS: High mortality rates found for stroke patients

FROM THE EDITOR: The debate over direct admissions
February 2010

COVER STORY: Need to calm down a frustrated patient?

FEATURE: Anemia: not just an outpatient problem anymore

FEATURE: Health-plan hospitalists cut readmissions—by sometimes leaving the hospital

CODING TIPS: Confused when billing concurrent care?

Q&A: Conflicting evidence on beta-blockers

POLL: A look at hospitalist coding patterns

WHAT WORKS: Embedding a hospitalist in the ED

COMMENTARY: 2020 vision

LETTERS: "Glorified housestaff" revisited

PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: St. Bernards Medical Center

FROM THE EDITOR: Hospital medicine’s evolution into post-acute care
January 2010

COVER STORY: Consult codes are going away (we think)

FEATURE: What's new in pneumonia care

FEATURE: Making sure information doesn't fall through the cracks

FEATURE: Flying SOLO

CODING TIPS: The new year’s big news in coding changes

COMMENTARY: Reconsidering patients who go AMA

ANALYSIS: Pending test results go AWOL

WHAT WORKS: Pairing physicians for better communication

LETTERS: ICH turf, "glorified housestaff?"

POLL: A look at growth in hospitalist group staffing

NEWS BRIEFS: The growing threat from CA MRSA

PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: Clearfield Hospital

PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: CareMore

FROM THE EDITOR: Shifting finances: the shape of things to come?
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