February 2008


M Bridget Duffy MD talks with staff at the Cleveland Clinic

It's not an admission, it's an experience

When former hospitalist M. Bridget Duffy, MD, became chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic last year, she explored every aspect of the hospital’s operation and set out to improve it. The changes instituted by her office of patient experience are making the Cleveland Clinic look and feel more like part of a very customer-service-oriented industry. That's no coincidence, say experts.

Letter from the Editor

Does your hospital have free wireless Internet in waiting areas, or offer patients aromatherapy and massages?.

In the News

ACC/AHA Task Force updates STEMI and PCI guidelines .

Coding Corner

Billing Medicare based on time and revised rules on verbal orders.

Expert analysis: woman with recent stroke and a patent foramen ovale

Expert analysis: Woman with recent stroke and a patent foramen ovale.

Exotic travel trend poses new challenges for hospitalists

Exotic travel trend poses new challenges for hospitalists.

E-learning for everyone

Virtual patients expose students and physicians to a wide range of clinical scenarios.

Journal Watch

Recent studies about perioperative consultation, increased U.S. staph infections, and other topics.