January 2017
Changing approaches to pain
Treating inpatients' pain is challenging in an opioid addiction epidemic.
The return of penicillin
How to fight drug resistance without inducing allergic reactions
Medical marijuana ... in the hospital?
As states legalize marijuana, hospitals develop policies on inpatient use
The frontiers of sepsis care
Physicians in Kansas improve sepsis care at critical access hospitals
What happens up there?
Experts offer advice for physicians requesting air medical transport.
The future is now
Revisiting 2007 predictions for hospital medicine with Robert Wachter, MD, FACP.
Sepsis still infected with uncertainty
Experts from CHEST 2016 debate screening, fluids, more
Malnutrition revisited
Criteria remain problematic from the clinical, coding, and regulatory perspectives and deserve more attention and discussion
Notes from the field: Hospital medicine in Japan
In Japan, hospital medicine may help to resolve several pressing issues, the biggest being the aging population.
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue includes articles on new approaches to pain management, use of penicillin, conference coverage from CHEST 2016, and more
Cases from Baylor College of Medicine
Diabetic neuropathic foot arthropathy, acute bacterial prostatitis, tuberculous peritonitis, and more
Recent Research
Women and stroke care, frailty as a predictor of cardiac surgery outcome, cost-effectiveness of heart failure therapy, and more