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  • The electronic health record: Getting more bang for the click
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2013, 80 (7) 397-398; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80b.07013

    Bemoaning the technology is not the answer—we need to refine the EHR, but we also need to do better documentation.

  • Multiple intracardiac thrombi
    Jana G. Hashash, MD, Nabil S. Zeineh, MD and Frederick W. Crock, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2013, 80 (7) 415-416; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.11149

    A 60-year-old woman presents with massive venous thrombosis. What is the cause?

  • How to interpret surveys in medical research: A practical approach
    Colleen Y. Colbert, PhD, Enrique Diaz-Guzman, MD, John D. Myers, MD and Alejandro C. Arroliga, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2013, 80 (7) 423-435; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12122

    Was the survey well designed? Was the sample appropriate and the response rate adequate? And do the data support the conclusions?

  • Practical management of bleeding due to the anticoagulants dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban
    Adewale Fawole, MD, Hamed A. Daw, MD and Mark A. Crowther, MD, MSC
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2013, 80 (7) 443-451; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.13025

    How these new drugs work, what coagulation tests can tell us, and how to reverse the drugs’ anticoagulant effect.

  • Correction
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2013, 80 (7) 435;

    An error appeared in Figure 1 of: Park K, Bavry AA. Aspirin: its risks, benefits, and optimal use in preventing cardiovascular events (Cleve Clin J Med 2013; 80:318–326).

  • Electronic siloing: An unintended consequence of the electronic health record
    James K. Stoller, MD, MS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2013, 80 (7) 406-409; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12172

    For all their purported benefits, electronic systems drive caregivers to work alone, thereby discouraging spontaneous interaction.

  • Electronic health records: We need to find needles, not stack more hay
    William H. Morris, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2013, 80 (7) 410-414; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.13056

    We need a system that extends our abilities and improves the care we give—and we don’t have it yet.

  • Paget disease of bone: Diagnosis and drug therapy
    Paget disease of bone: Diagnosis and drug therapy
    Margaret Seton, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2013, 80 (7) 452-462; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12142

    This focal disorder of aging bone may be asymptomatic or cause pain, bowing deformities, fractures, or nonspecific rheumatic complaints.

  • A 74-year-old man with abdominal pain
    Maqsood A. Khan, MD, Kevin B. Patel, MD, Robert J. March, MD, Mohammed Nooruddin and Michael D. Brown, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2013, 80 (6) 363-368; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12080

    The patient has colon cancer, a repaired abdominal aortic aneurysm, and now, worsening abdominal pain.

  • Sleep-disordered breathing and resistant hypertension (February 2013)
    Ugur Kucuk, MD, Hilal Olgun Kucuk, MD, Sevket Balta, MD and Sait Demirkol, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2013, 80 (6) 340; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949//ccjm.80c.06001

    Readers comment on the role of sleep apnea in resistant hypertension (February 2013).

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