Hospital Medicine

  • In reply: Submassive pulmonary embolism (December 2016)
    Ali Ataya, MD, Jessica Cope, PharmD, Abbas Shahmohammadi, MD and Hassan Alnuaimat, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 94-95; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84c.02004
  • What stool testing is appropriate when diarrhea develops in a hospitalized patient?
    Sheena K. Ramdeen, MD, MPH and Glenn W. Wortmann, MD, FIDSA, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2016, 83 (12) 882-884; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16039

    Most cases are not due to infection, but Clostridium difficile is the most common infectious cause.

  • Benefits and challenges of caring for international patients
    Kelly A. Cawcutt, MD and John W. Wilson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 794-800; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16035

    Improving the quality of care and the clinical experience for both providers and patients.

  • Seeking medical care abroad: A challenge to empathy
    Nizar N. Zein, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 801-803; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16097

    Empathy for international patients is not merely a matter of kindness, it is central to healing.

  • Update in perioperative cardiac medicine
    Steven L. Cohn, MD, MS, FACP, SFHM, Suparna Dutta, MD, MPH, Barbara A. Slawski, MD, MS, FACP, SFHM, Paul J. Grant, MD, SFHM, FACP and Gerald W. Smetana, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 723-730; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16076

    Risk assessment, risk reduction, antiplatelet therapy after stent placement, and bridging anticoagulation.

  • The ABCs of managing systolic heart failure: Past, present, and future
    Ike S. Okwuosa, MD, Oluseyi Princewill, MD, MPH, Chiemeke Nwabueze, MD, Lena Mathews, MD, Steven Hsu, MD, Nisha A. Gilotra, MD, Sabra Lewsey, MD, MPH, Roger S. Blumenthal, MD and Stuart D. Russell, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 753-765; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16006

    Digitalis, diuretics, and bedrest have given way to neurohormonal blockade and physical rehabilitation.

  • Evolution of heart failure management: Miles to go
    James B. Young, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 766-768; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16043

    Despite progress, too many patients still suffer, too many die too young, and the costs are still too great.

  • Are we causing anemia by ordering unnecessary blood tests?
    Carlo Lutz, MD and Hyung J. Cho, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2016, 83 (7) 496-497; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15108

    Iatrogenic anemia from blood draws is common, serious, and unnecessary.

  • The evolution of office notes and the electronic medical record: The CAPS note
    Joseph F. Styron, MD, PhD and Peter J. Evans, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2016, 83 (7) 542-544; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.14191

    CAPS–concern, assessment, plan, and supporting data–improves on the SOAP format.

  • Cognitive bias and diagnostic error (November 2015)
    Morton H. Field, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2016, 83 (6) 407-408; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.06003

    Readers comment on cognitive bias and diagnostic error (November 2015).

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