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  • Improving patient outcomes with better care transitions: The role for home health
    Michael O. Fleming, MD and Tara Trahan Haney
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1 e-suppl 1) e-S2-e-S6; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80.e-s1.02
  • A guideline is like a prescription
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1) 5; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80b.01013

    We should not worship the idol of guidelines alone, but neither should we ignore them and make decisions based only on anecdote and experience.

  • The case for “connected health” at home
    Steven H. Landers, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1 e-suppl 1) e-S27-e-S29; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80.e-s1.06
  • When do Raynaud symptoms merit a workup for autoimmune rheumatic disease?
    Soumya Chatterjee, MD, MS, FRCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1) 22-25; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12082

    Clues to systemic disease include prolonged and painful attacks that can cause ulceration or gangrene. Other clues are older age at onset, male sex, and asymmetric involvement.

  • Home-based care for heart failure: Cleveland Clinic’s “Heart Care at Home” transitional care program
    Eiran Z. Gorodeski, MD, MPH, Sandra Chlad, NP and Seth Vilensky, MBA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1 e-suppl 1) e-S20-e-S26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80.e-s1.05
  • Right upper-abdominal pain in a 97-year-old
    Chia-Ter Chao, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1) 15-16; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.11155

    Physical findings and laboratory studies are normal. What is the cause of this patient’s pain?

  • A short story of the short QT syndrome
    Hayan Al Maluli, MD and Arnold B. Meshkov, MD, MBA, FACC
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1) 41-47; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12029

    Short QT syndrome is a recently recognized cause of cardiac rhythm disorders, including sudden cardiac death. Though rare, it is worth thinking about.

  • Correction
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1) 40; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12885

    A sentence was omitted from the abstract of McGill JJ, Shoskes DA, Sabanegh ES Jr. Androgen deficiency in older men: indications, advantages, and pitfalls of testosterone replacement therapy. Cleve Clin J Med 2012; 79:797–806.

  • Human papillomavirus vaccine: Safe, effective, underused
    Human papillomavirus vaccine: Safe, effective, underused
    Xian Wen Jin, MD, PhD, FACP, Laura Lipold, MD, Andrea Sikon, MD and Ellen Rome, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1) 49-60; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12084

    Because HPV is sexually transmitted, HPV vaccination has met with public controversy. A review of the data and the challenges.

  • A 47-year-old man with chest and neck pain
    M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP, Usman Ayub Khan, MBBS, Khaldoon Shaheen, MD and Abdul Hamid Alraiyes, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2013, 80 (1) 6-8; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12032

    While boarding a bus, a 50-pack-year smoker with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease heard popping sounds, which were followed by chest and neck pain. What do his radiographs show?

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