March 2018
PCPs in the hospital
Innovators are taking steps to help banish care discontinuity once and for all, with some especially focusing on the role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the hospital.
Preventing physician suicide
New efforts seek to reduce stigma among clinicians about mental illness and treatment.
Digging up and dealing with inpatient depression
Accurately diagnosing depression in a medically ill person can be tricky, but hospitalists can take steps to improve inpatient and postdischarge mental health care.
Creating a universal suicide screening program
One hospital built an algorithm for suicide screening into its electronic health record.
A prescription for medication errors
A simplified approach to medication adherence could lead to better outcomes, according to two physicians who propose steps for clinicians and the health care system to prevent adverse medication events.
Opioid use disorders
ICD-10-CM contains a large, complex set of combination codes to describe opioid use and its many manifestations, consequences, and related conditions.
Strange but true, a DNR tattoo
A critical care physician describes an unusual unconscious patient his team recently treated.
Warning on pneumothorax with enteral access system
Details on the latest recalls, alerts, and approvals.
Coming full circle
This issue features the idea of bringing primary care physicians back to the hospital and advice on protecting the mental health of clinicians and inpatients.
Pulmonary testing
A reader responds to a recent article about perioperative testing.
Rounding with the Bard
Shakespeare's words apply to hospital medicine, a fictional physician finds.
Frail elderly, Enterobacteriaceae infections, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
Cases from the Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center
Infective endocarditis, milk-alkali syndrome, and multiple myeloma.