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The hospitalist as intensivist
- Author:
- By Anna Maria Muñoa
- MD
What roles, training, and support do hospitalists have and perceive in the intensive care unit?
News

Guidelines to optimize treatment of reduced ejection fraction heart failure
- Author:
- By Anna Maria Muñoa
- MD
What guidance is there for clinical care of complex heart failure patients?
Article

Emergency Imaging: Femoral Pseudoaneurysm
- Author:
- Alex Koo
- MD; Vincent Ball
- MD
An 84-year-old man presented for evaluation of an increasingly swollen mass on his left groin.
News

Don’t delay hip-fracture surgery
- Author:
- Glenn Moulder
- MD
What is the association of wait time and 30-day mortality in patients undergoing hip-fracture surgery?
News

Lower risk of ICH with dabigatran as compared to warfarin in atrial fibrillation
- Author:
- Rahul Mehta
- MD
Is dabigatran superior to warfarin with regards to the risk of intracranial hemorrhage and myocardial infarction in patients with atrial...
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Providers’ prior imaging patterns and ownership of equipment are strong predictors of low-value imaging
- Author:
- Amber Inofuentes
- MD
Is there evidence that ownership of imaging equipment, prior ordering history, and ordering behavior in other clinical scenarios are associated...
News

High 5-year mortality in patients admitted with heart failure regardless of ejection fraction
- Author:
- Miriam Gomez-Sanchez
- MD
Are there differences in 5-year outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (ejection fraction [EF],...
News

Use procalcitonin-guided algorithms to guide antibiotic therapy for acute respiratory infections to improve patient outcomes
- Author:
- Michele Sundar
- MD
How does using procalcitonin levels for adults with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) affect patient outcomes?
Audio
Myelodysplastic syndromes: etiologies, evaluation, and therapy
- Author:
- David Henry
- MD; David Steensma
- MD
News

Delaying lumbar punctures for a head CT may result in increased mortality in acute bacterial meningitis
- Author:
- Noble Maleque
- MD
- FHM
- facp
Can we safely perform lumbar punctures (LP) without neuroimaging in patients with acute bacterial meningitis (ABM)?
Article
Neuromodulation for Treatment-Refractory PTSD
- Author:
- Jean-Philippe Langevin
- MD; Ralph J. Koek
- MD; Holly N. Schwartz
- MD; James W.Y. Chen
- MD
- PhD; David L. Sultzer
- MD; Mark A. Mandelkern
- PhD; Alexis D. Kulick
- PhD; and Scott E. Krahl
- PhD
Deep brain stimulation has been successful in treating Parkinson disease and essential tremor and is now reducing PTSD symptoms in the first...
Opinion

Defensive medicine’s stranglehold on the realities of practice
- Author:
- Allan M. Block
- MD
Patient history can unfortunately take a back seat to defensive medicine in emergency situations, writes Dr. Allan M. Block.
Opinion
Clinical Challenges - March 2018 What's your diagnosis?
- Author:
- Uichiro Fuchizaki
- MD
- Kazutoshi Yamada
- and Shogo Matsuda
News

Triple therapy in question
- Author:
- By Kinnear Theobald
- MD
Clinical question: In patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is dabigatran plus a...
Article
Penalizing Physicians for Low-Value Care in Hospital Medicine: A Randomized Survey
- Author:
- Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc
- Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD
- Marilyn M. Schapira
- MD
- MPH3
- 5
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- Arlene Weissman, PhD
- Nandita Mitra PhD
- David A. Asch, MD, MBA
1Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 2UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety,...