Calendar of upcoming medical events.

Author lists five articles that "should be of interest to hospitalists."...

Abstracts and full text links from recent journals of interest to Hospitalists....

"A nice review of last year's flu pandemic; this year's seasonal flu will probably be a descendent of that strain."

Several recent books have addressed "How Doctors Think," with emphasis on diagnostic decision making and the sources of diagnostic error. National venues now target the problem of diagnostic error and new studies highlight ...

Moyamoya is a disease that was first reported in Japan, in the 1960s. It is a rare and progressive disorder that affects the arteries at the base of the brain, leading to the occlusion of the distal internal carotids and ...

"Each year, approximately 200,000 permanent pacemakers are implanted in the United States and 1,000,000 worldwide.1,2 Since the initial transvenous pacemaker implantation 6 decades ago, improvements in battery longevity, ...

The treatment of acute ischemic stroke is dependent on timely recognition. After ensuring airway, respiratory and circulatory stability, NIHSS should be performed and urgent CT scan obtained. If no exclusions exist, ...

Readmission remains a financial burden in our healthcare arena. Billions of dollars in hospital payments were made from Medicare towards readmissions. The problem of patients’ ineffective transitions during hospital discharge ...

A physician maldistribution exists when comparing rural with urban areas. It is necessary to ensure rural citizens have available, accessible, and acceptable quality medical care to remedy health disparities resulting from ...

Advance care planning is the guideline recommended process which encourages adults to analyze values, identify goals, and articulate preferences for future medical care in order to protect autonomy in the event of ...

Even though there is evidence to suggest that teaching normative ethical theory has limited influence on the ethical behavior of clinicians, typical pedagogy in clinical ethics continues to focus on adherence to professional ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, intervention mechanism, and potential effectiveness of the SystemCHANGE™ (Change Habits by Applying New Goals and Experiences) intervention in older ...

Due to rural health disparities and an uneven distribution of health providers across the rural urban continuum, retaining the existing rural health care provider workforce may be an important strategy to maintain existing ...

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