Update in Hospital Medicine
Authors: Preetha Basaviah, Shaun Frost
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2006)

Updates7 November 2006Update in Hospital MedicinePreetha Basaviah, MD and Shaun Frost, MDPreetha Basaviah, MDFrom Stanford University, Stanford, and Cogent Healthcare, Irvine, California.Search for more papers by this author and Shaun Frost, MDFrom Stanford University, Stanford, and Cogent Healthcare, Irvine, California.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-145-9-200611070-00011 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail We selected the articles for this Update in Hospital Medicine after surveying the literature and consulting with opinion leaders from across the United States. Criteria for selection were quality of evidence and importance to hospital medicine practitioners and hospital administrators. The articles are divided into those that are likely to affect clinical practice and are relevant to patient safety and quality improvement. The American College of Physicians presented this Update in Hospital Medicine in cooperation with the Society for Hospital Medicine. Changes to clinical practice emerging from these articles are shown in the Table .Table. Changes to Clinical Practice ...References1. Knight CL, Fihn SD. Update in general internal medicine. Ann Intern Med. 2006;145:52-61. [PMID: 16818929] LinkGoogle Scholar2. Greenberger NJ, Sharma P. Update in gastroenterology and hepatology. Ann Intern Med. 2006;145:294-8. [PMID: 16908920] LinkGoogle Scholar3. Lorber B. Update in infectious diseases. Ann Intern Med. 2006;145:354-60. [PMID: 16954360] LinkGoogle Scholar4. Kluger DM, Maki DG. The relative risk of intravascular device related bloodstream infections in adults [Abstract]. 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