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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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    Staph Endocarditis, METs, COPD CPGs & More

    September 1, 2005

    A review of staphylococcal Endocarditis VG Fowler Jr, Miro JM, Hoen B, et al for the ICE Investigators. Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: a consequence of medical progress. JAMA.

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    The Case of the Nonhealing Wound

    September 1, 2005

    An 85-year-old female developed a sore on the left foot (see image above) during the past six months.

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    2005 Election for SHM Board of Directors

    September 1, 2005

    The SHM Nominating Committee is requesting nominations for three open seats on the Board of Directors for a three-year term, beginning May 2, 2006. In addition there will be one pediatric hospitalist seat on the SHM Board for a three-year term, beginning May 2, 2006.

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    The New and the Timeless

    September 1, 2005

    In publishing and hospital medicine, some things change—but some things remain the same

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    Update from the Public Policy Committee

    July 2, 2005

    Opportunity to Partner in Improving Care: The Medicare Chronic Care Improvement Programs

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    SHM Elects Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP, to Newly Created Pediatrics Seat on Board of Directors

    July 2, 2005

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    Other Literature of Interest

    July 2, 2005

    1. Chimowitz MI, Lynn MJ, Howlett-Smith H, et al. Comparison of warfarin and aspirin for symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis. N Engl J Med. 352:1305-16.

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    In the Literature

    July 2, 2005

    Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication Errors; Risk Stratification for In-hospital Mortality in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure: Classification and Regression Tree Analysis; and Risk of Endocarditis among Patients with Prosthetic Valves and Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia