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    Evidence Based Medicine for The Hospitalist

    October 1, 2005

    The series begins with an overview of what constitutes evidence-based medicine

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    Moving Out

    October 1, 2005

    What the future holds for thehospital discharge process

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    Survey Time

    October 1, 2005

    Ensure your voice is heard in SHM’s 2005 Productivity and Compensation Survey

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    A Case of Kidney Failure

    October 1, 2005

    An 84-year-old woman with history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presented with six months of anorexia, nausea, a five-pound weight loss, weakness, and nonbloody diarrhea.

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    Added Value

    October 1, 2005

    Progressive hospitalists embrace new roles in the palliative care process

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    Eye of the Storm

    October 1, 2005

    The Ochsner Hospital Program in New Orleans hunkered down for the duration of Hurricane Katrina. Here is their story.

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    Infectious Arthritis of Native and Prosthetic Joints

    September 2, 2005

    Introduction Acute bacterial arthritis is a potentially serious and rapidly progressive infection that may involve native or prosthetic joints.

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    Reducing Antimicrobial Resistance and Hospital-Associated Infections: The Role of the Hospitalist

    September 2, 2005

    While infections that develop during hospitalization may appear to be an uncommon but recognized risk of hospital care today, the incidence of these infections has been increasing dramatically during the last 2 to 3 decades, and the risk of acquiring an organism that is resistant to 1 or more antibi

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    The Inpatient with AIDS: What the Hospitalist Needs to Know

    September 2, 2005

    The opinions and assertions contained herein are those of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, or the naval services at large. Introduction An estimated 850,000 to 950,000 persons in the United States

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    Nosocomial Pneumonia

    September 2, 2005

    (This chapter has been reprinted with permission from Williams MV, Hayward R: Comprehensive Hospital Medicine, 1st edition. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, in press.) Background Nosocomial pneumonia (NP) is the leading cause of mortality among patients who die from hospital-acquired infections.