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Letter from the Editor
This month's issue includes stories on women balancing hospital medicine careers and family, negotiation skills, hospitalists as physician advisors, mortality risk prediction, and evaluating handoffs, among others.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/07/lfe.htm
15 Jul 2013
Shifting views on shiftwork
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center developed a new system to maintain night coverage in the ICU under resident work-hour limits.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/success.htm
15 Feb 2013
Grooming residents to be hospitalist leaders
Residents who want to become tomorrow's hospitalists need to learn more than clinical skills to succeed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/residents.htm
15 Feb 2013
Global health hospitalists
More physicians are focusing on a particular country, and frequently a particular hospital, to bring about lasting change.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/coverstory.htm
15 Jan 2013
Doctoring at a lower decibel
Rochester General Hospital in New York used a team approach to reduce noise throughout the facility.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/success.htm
15 Jan 2013
In the News
New definition of MI, average lifespan of heart failure patients, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/12/itn.htm
15 Dec 2012
Hospital medicine matures
Post-acute care is emerging as a dedicated field of practice on a path similar to hospital medicine's a decade or so ago.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/coverstory.htm
15 Oct 2012
Reviewing medications in elderly inpatients
Multiple medication use is common among the elderly, and carries inherent risks.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/meds.htm
15 Oct 2012
Appreciating a good signout
University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Va., improved the signout of patients from one resident to another.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/success.htm
15 Oct 2012
Interventions at hospital discharge help transitions to primary care, but more research is needed
Certain interventions at hospital discharge appear to help improve handoffs to primary care, but more research is needed to determine how and why, a new study indicates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/09/19/5.htm
19 Sep 2012