Hospital Medicine: Just The Facts
1st Edition
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9780071463959
© 2008 | Published: June 9, 2008
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Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Section 1: THE HOSPITALIST MOVEMENT
1. Hospital Medicine in the United States: Growth, Prevalence, and Challenges, Winthrop F. Whitcomb
2. The Role of the Hospitalist as Defined in the Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine, Daniel D. Dressler
3. Innovative New Roles in the Hospital, Lance Rachelefsky and Sylvia C. McKean
Section 2: SYSTEMS--HOSPITALISTS AS LEADERS IN PATIENT SAFETY
4. General Overview of Patient Safety, Sylvia C. McKean and Allan Frankel
5. Adverse Drug Events, Frank Federico
6. Medication Discrepancies and Medication Reconciliation, Jeffrey L. Schnipper
7. Polypharmacy, Jatin K. Dave and Juergen Bludau
8. Patient Safety: Preventing and Responding to Adverse Events, Allen Kachalia and Tejal K. Gandhi
Section 3: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
9. Quality Improvement for the Hospitalist, Lakshmi K. Halasyamani and Erin R. Stucky
Section 4: HOSPITALIST AS MANAGER
10. Management for Hospitalists, Michael Friedlander and Mohammad Salameh
Section 5: HOSPITALISTS AND CARE TRANSITIONS AND TEAMWORK
11. Principles of Good Teamwork, Janet Nagamine
12. Strategies to Optimize Length of Stay, Kathleen M. Finn
13. Handoffs, Vineet Arora and Julie Johnson
14. Discharge Summaries, Marcy G. Carty and Namita s. Mohta
15. Patient Education in the Hospital, Marie Neaton
16. Managing Test Results at Hospital Discharge, Christopher L. Roy
Section 6: EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
17. An Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine, Eduardo Ortiz
18. Evidence-Based Medicine--Testing, Sylvia C. McKean and Eduardo Ortiz
19. the Growing Importance of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Managing Hospitalized Patients, Jerome Lewis Avorn20. Hospitalist as Researcher, LeRoi Hicks
Section 7: HOSPITALIST CLINICAL CORE COMPETENCIES
Cardiovascular Illness
21. Chest Pain, Timothy D. Brennan
22. Suspected Angina, Aaron S. Wenger
23. Acute Coronary Syndromes, Hacho Bohossian
24. Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Apoor Patel
25. Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter, Robert D. Winslow
26. Supreventricular Tachycardia, Mara Giattina
27. Sinus Bradycardia and Atrioventricular Blocks, Apoor Patel
28. Ventricular Arrhythmias, Beth Liston
29. Heart Failure due to Diastolic Dysfunction, Colleen M. Crumlish and James C. Fang
30. Heart Failure due to Systolic Dysfunction, Colleen M. Crumlish and James C. Fang
31. Syncope, Daniel W. Mudrick
32. Hypertensive Urgencies/Emergencies, Renee Y. Meadows
33. Secondary Hypertension, Renee Y. Meadows
Endocrine Disorders
34. Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemia, Mohannad Salameh
35. Hyperglycimia in the Critical Care Unit, A. Rebecca Daniel
36. Hyperglycemia in Noncritically-Ill Hospitalized Patients, Aditi R. Saxena and Merri L. Pendergrass
37. Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism, Rachael Fawcett and Erik K. Alexander
Gastrointestinal Illness
38. Abdominal Pain, Norton J. Greenberger
39. Abnormal Liver Enzymes and Acute Hepatitis, Mary Ann H. Sherbondy
40. Cirrhosis, Thomas M. Shehab
41. Colitis and Diarrhea, Including Clostridium difficile, Marvin Ryou
42. Crohn's Disease, Jonathan Levine and Robert Burakoff
43. Ulcerative Colitis, Scott Hande and Robert Burakoff
44. Diverticular Disease and Diverticulitis, Norton J. Greenberger
45. Pancreatitis, Eric R. Schumacher
46. Small Bowel Obstruction, Lynn Wilkinson
47.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Section 1: THE HOSPITALIST MOVEMENT
1. Hospital Medicine in the United States: Growth, Prevalence, and Challenges, Winthrop F. Whitcomb
2. The Role of the Hospitalist as Defined in the Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine, Daniel D. Dressler
3. Innovative New Roles in the Hospital, Lance Rachelefsky and Sylvia C. McKean
Section 2: SYSTEMS--HOSPITALISTS AS LEADERS IN PATIENT SAFETY
4. General Overview of Patient Safety, Sylvia C. McKean and Allan Frankel
5. Adverse Drug Events, Frank Federico
6. Medication Discrepancies and Medication Reconciliation, Jeffrey L. Schnipper
7. Polypharmacy, Jatin K. Dave and Juergen Bludau
8. Patient Safety: Preventing and Responding to Adverse Events, Allen Kachalia and Tejal K. Gandhi
Section 3: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
9. Quality Improvement for the Hospitalist, Lakshmi K. Halasyamani and Erin R. Stucky
Section 4: HOSPITALIST AS MANAGER
10. Management for Hospitalists, Michael Friedlander and Mohammad Salameh
Section 5: HOSPITALISTS AND CARE TRANSITIONS AND TEAMWORK
11. Principles of Good Teamwork, Janet Nagamine
12. Strategies to Optimize Length of Stay, Kathleen M. Finn
13. Handoffs, Vineet Arora and Julie Johnson
14. Discharge Summaries, Marcy G. Carty and Namita s. Mohta
15. Patient Education in the Hospital, Marie Neaton
16. Managing Test Results at Hospital Discharge, Christopher L. Roy
Section 6: EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
17. An Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine, Eduardo Ortiz
18. Evidence-Based Medicine--Testing, Sylvia C. McKean and Eduardo Ortiz
19. the Growing Importance of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Managing Hospitalized Patients, Jerome Lewis Avorn20. Hospitalist as Researcher, LeRoi Hicks
Section 7: HOSPITALIST CLINICAL CORE COMPETENCIES
Cardiovascular Illness
21. Chest Pain, Timothy D. Brennan
22. Suspected Angina, Aaron S. Wenger
23. Acute Coronary Syndromes, Hacho Bohossian
24. Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Apoor Patel
25. Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter, Robert D. Winslow
26. Supreventricular Tachycardia, Mara Giattina
27. Sinus Bradycardia and Atrioventricular Blocks, Apoor Patel
28. Ventricular Arrhythmias, Beth Liston
29. Heart Failure due to Diastolic Dysfunction, Colleen M. Crumlish and James C. Fang
30. Heart Failure due to Systolic Dysfunction, Colleen M. Crumlish and James C. Fang
31. Syncope, Daniel W. Mudrick
32. Hypertensive Urgencies/Emergencies, Renee Y. Meadows
33. Secondary Hypertension, Renee Y. Meadows
Endocrine Disorders
34. Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemia, Mohannad Salameh
35. Hyperglycimia in the Critical Care Unit, A. Rebecca Daniel
36. Hyperglycemia in Noncritically-Ill Hospitalized Patients, Aditi R. Saxena and Merri L. Pendergrass
37. Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism, Rachael Fawcett and Erik K. Alexander
Gastrointestinal Illness
38. Abdominal Pain, Norton J. Greenberger
39. Abnormal Liver Enzymes and Acute Hepatitis, Mary Ann H. Sherbondy
40. Cirrhosis, Thomas M. Shehab
41. Colitis and Diarrhea, Including Clostridium difficile, Marvin Ryou
42. Crohn's Disease, Jonathan Levine and Robert Burakoff
43. Ulcerative Colitis, Scott Hande and Robert Burakoff
44. Diverticular Disease and Diverticulitis, Norton J. Greenberger
45. Pancreatitis, Eric R. Schumacher
46. Small Bowel Obstruction, Lynn Wilkinson
47.
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