November 2010
Patient safety vs. physician frustration: Finding a balance for medication alerts
Warnings in a computerized provider order entry system help alert prescribers to risky drugs for the elderly.
Hospitalists cost-effective even with per diem payments
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center improved census coverage and reduced payment denials.
Letter from the Editor
We hope some of the Top Hospitalists profiled in this issue will be new to you, as part of our mission is to shine a light on excellent, unsung work in the hospitalist community.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to articles on coding for encephalopathy and on assisted suicide.
Day of the undead: The zombie intern
I didn't think my fellow first-years were really worried about my consuming them, but you never know about the strange prejudices of the living.
Family medicine
Before I even started medical school, friends and family were soliciting medical advice. How should medical students handle such requests?.
Acute renal failure
Documentation and coding of acute renal failure can be problematic, as many different criteria may be used to define the condition.
Test yourself: Renal insufficiency
These cases and commentary, which address renal insufficiency, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
Warning about contrast agents, review underway on Stalevo
Drug recalls, warnings, approvals.
In the news
Rehospitalizations and sickle-cell patients, prescription drug poisoning, and more.