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Experts debate glucose control in the ICU

Studies have shown that controlling blood glucose closely and carefully improves survival and morbidity among intensive care patients, but the ideal target remains controversial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/glucose.htm
15 Sep 2007

Practicing cost-effective medicine

One clinician's top 10 tips.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/tips.htm
15 Sep 2007

Dialogue: Communication at discharge

Lee W. Roof, ACP Member, a primary care internist, and Dawn Brezina, ACP Member, a hospitalist, offer their perspectives on how hospitalists and PCPs can improve communication during handoffs at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/improve-comm.htm
15 Oct 2007

Better communication at the end of life

Form ensures dying patients' wishes are carried out as medical orders.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/patient-wishes.htm
15 Oct 2007

Dallas hospital substantially reduces time from ED arrival to admission

Open dialogue among departments helped reform systemic flaws.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/dallas.htm
15 Dec 2007

Wanted: Small-town hospitalists

Hospitalists can bring some relief to short-staffed rural areas by taking over inpatient care. But as more rural communities consider implementing hospitalist programs, they find themselves faced with the same recruitment challenge that helped create the problem: a rural venue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/cover-story.htm
15 Dec 2007

Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates: The wrong quality measure

Legislators, payers and quality-of-care advocates across the nation are considering requiring hospitals to report ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates as a way to benchmark quality of care and penalize poor performers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/vap-qm.htm
15 Dec 2007