American Journal of Hospital Medicine, Table of Contents, Volume 1 Issue 4. October-December 2017....

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

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

With this issue, we are launching a Quality/ Safety Section to focus on quality improvement, patient safety topics and methods important to Hospitalists....

Key recommendations from the 2017 Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Diarrhea...

This article answers the question: I ordered serologic testing for Lyme disease for one of my patients and I'm not sure how to interpret the results of the Western blot. The blot shows a few dark bands, but the report ...

"We report an adult patient presenting for surgery with hidden marked orbital exenteration (Figures 1, 2). The patient had history of resected left orbital neoplasm that remained concealed under an eye patch during preoperative physical examination...

Five article citations of interest to hospitalists.

, and diuretics for symptomatic relief (1). With few advances made over the past few decades, the principles of treating HFrEF have been revolutionized following the results of the PARADIGM-HF trial (Prospective comparison of ARNI with ACEI to Determine Impact...

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 ...

This article answers the question: I've been hearing about biotin and biotin interference. What is it and do I need to be concerned about it?

. For this procedure, general anesthesia with intravenous Propofol was utilized. Due to technical difficulty of the procedure, the total anesthesia time was 7 hours and 48 minutes with a total use of 2,951.06 mg of Propofol. On post-procedure day #1, the patient...

The aim of this study was to analyze the appropriateness of bivalirudin utilization indicated for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). A total of 218 patients who were admitted to University of Missouri Health Care ...

The applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare have been steadily growing over the past few years. This is largely due to the availability of large amounts of healthcare data, coupled with a dramatic increase ...

"Background: Patient-centered care is the future of hospital services. Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is the first of its kind, national, publicly available standardized survey. Although the overall score...

with as many as 40 known reported cases in women and only one other reported case in a transgender female. The presumed mechanism is estrogen-induced hypertriglyceridemia as triglyceride levels were documented as greater than 1,000 mg/dL in most diagnosed...

The IDSA has just released practice guidelines for the evaluation of fever and infection in older adults who are in LTCFs.

in practice patterns among clinicians. Below is a brief summary of the most likely diseases to be encountered in hospital medicine practice....