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Clearing or clouding the mind?
Antipsychotics can resolve agitation in patients with delirium, but that may not provide much overall benefit.
November 2011
Communication skills vital to cancer conversations
Lifestyle choices raise your risk” can make patients think they are to blame for their cancer, he said. ... Back said. He also recommended offering the 90th percentile in your practice as the best-case scenario and the 10th percentile as the worst-case
October 2013
Glutted with guidelines?
The decision, as with many in clinical practice, is up to the physician. ... Jacobi. They can set a path for organizing your practice more efficiently and provide some processes to measure.
May 2013
Panel picks appropriate uses for PICCs
What we ideally would like to do is create a toolkit, “Here's the top 5 recommendations from this panel of ways to improve your practice around venous access and PICCs,” ... I think this type of outreach and buy-in is key to start to translate these
October 2015
Act quickly and listen a lot
Alfandre has experienced the frustration of patients leaving AMA in his own practice. ... One year from now, no one will believe what you say, but your written words will be presumed to be accurate, so don't skimp on this,” he said.
March 2010
Dabigatran or warfarin?
With dabigatran now a viable alternative to warfarin, hospitalists and hospitals should develop a plan for its use.
March 2011
Inpatient medication: Too much information, or not enough?
Cumbler. Still, the practice holds promise. In a pilot study, Dr.
March 2010
Letter from the Editor
For example, what's the ideal ratio of midlevels to hospitalists? Will your midlevels function more or less independently, or will they be part of a team? ... In our cover story on page 8, Senior Writer Jessica Berthold looks at these and other issues to
April 2009
Getting the most from advanced practice providers
practice director for the division of hospital medicine and medical director for the physician assistant program at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. ... You have to first understand your reasons for incorporating APPs
December 2016
Yes, sickle cell is a pain
Feldman. The education includes both resident training and resources for physicians already in practice, including CME events, webinars (which are available online to physicians outside of the area) and community forums. ... You don't have to go it alone,
April 2013