Table of contents for Volume 1, Issue 2, April-June 2017 of the American journal of hospital medicine....

Calendar of hospital medicine conferences (2017)....

Calendar of hospital medicine conferences (2017)....

Question and answer regarding a patient who became acutely thrombocytopenic.

As hospitalists, we often care for patients who either present with diarrhea or develop diarrhea during their hospital visit. We have learned to think of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) early. In the United States, administrative data...

The roles of non-physician providers, such as physician assistants (PA) and nurse practitioners (NP), are constantly evolving in the United States healthcare system. They are a vital part of many inpatient multi-disciplinary ...

Volunteerism is common in the United States, though less is known about volunteerism among medical professionals. We aimed to record and compare volunteer activities among hospitalists and non-hospitalists in academic and ...

"Although it can be challenging to think about screenings while trying to fix potentially life-threatening conditions, hospitalists need to actively screen for HIV infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1.1...

This is a response to the question: I heard there is going to be a shortage of FFP [universal donor type AB plasma] from the American Red Cross during the next few months. What should I do when I need to urgently reverse anticoagulation in patients...

the left internal jugular vein. A chest x-ray showed a line that terminated to the left of the midline and raised concern for arterial placement (Figure 1). Blood gases from the line were: pH 7.72, pCO2 21 mmHg, pO2 369 mmHg, bicarbonate 28.4 mmol/L....

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a rare thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) with a genetic predisposition. Like other TMAs, it presents clinically with thrombocytopenia and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, which ...

Clinical vignette: A 40 year-old female with no significant past medical history had a 3-day history of runny nose, headache, cough and post-nasal drip. Her physical exam showed erythematous pharyngeal wall but it was ...

.4[percent] of nurses favored multidisciplinary round versus 4.2[percent] who did not. This was 54.5[percent] vs. 27.2[percent] for case managers and 44.1[percent] vs. 30.2[percent] for the residents (P-value = 0.002). Conclusion: Discharge process...

Over the past several years, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has issued new restrictions on resident duty hours while calling for increased supervision to ensure patient safety. To meet these requirements, some...

Introduction: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services financially penalize hospitals for elevated 30-day readmission rates. Identifying patients at high risk for short-term readmission would allow health systems to strategically allocate...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is being increasingly used to provide support in patients with refractory cardiopulmonary distress syndromes. Neurological sequelae, either from the ECMO or the hypoxic/hypotensive ...