Essentials Of Hospital Medicine: A Practical Guide For Clinicians

Hospitalists as Leaders: Introduction: Hospitalists as Leaders (A Dunn); Key Clinical Pearls: Physical exam essentials (J Stulman); Primer on EBM (A Holbrook); Patient Safety and Hospital Quality: Medication Reconciliation (J Goldenberg); IT for the Hospitalist (K Rogers); Business of Hospital Medicine: Metrics and Dashboards (J Farber); E&M Coding (I Helenius & S Sigworth); Cardiology: Acute Coronary Syndrome (B Darrow); Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter (J Halperin); Syncope (M Miller); Pulmonary: COPD (N Schachter); Interstitial Lung Disease (T Harkin); Renal: Acute Renal Insufficiency (T Kim); Hyper and Hypokalemia (M Ross); Endocrine: Hyperthyroidism, including Thyroid Storm (Haber); Adrenal Insufficiency, including Adrenal Crisis (M LaMothe et al.); Infectious Disease: CAP / HAP (M Lee); HIV Disease (R Mackay); Clostridium Difficile Colitis (F Wallach); GI/Liver: Pancreatitis (R Akhtar); Small Bowel Obstruction (C Divino); Neurology: Approach to Delirium (A Briones); Acute Stroke/TIA (S Tuhrim); Hematology: Evaluation of Anemia (I Aledort); Sickle Cell Crisis (P Shi); Rheumatology: Evaluation of Acute Arthritis (Ali); RA Flare (Kerr/Gorevic); Oncology for the Hospitalist: Malignancy Workup (Oh); Common Chemotherapy Complications (Oh); Critical Care: SIRS / Shock (Kalb); Mechanical Ventilation Management/Weaning Protocols (U Ayala); Psychiatric Illness: Schizophrenia (Marin/Sharma); Drug Abuse and Withdrawal (Marin/Sharma); Preventing Hospital Complications: Falls (Rule & Markoff); Pressure Ulcers (Navid); Consultation and Peri-Operative Medicine: Pre-op Cardiac Assessment (D Chang); Pre-op Pulmonary Assessment (A Morgenthau); Co-Management (A Jaffer); Pain Management: Pain Management (J Horton); Transplant Medicine: Transplant Medicine (S Dua et al.); Palliative Care: Medical Ethics (A Dinescu); Common Symptoms Management in Palliative Care (E Chai); Global Health: Common Infectious Diseases by Nation and Region (D Caplivski); Cultural Competence (C Horowitz); Hospitalist as Educator: Teaching Tips and Pearls (L Coplit); Bedside Teaching (B Sharpe); Hospitalist as Researcher: Developing a Hospitalist Research Agenda (D Meltzer); and other papers.