This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This third issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the following topics: B-type natriuretic peptide; procalcitonin; erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein; urine lytes; rational testing in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding; antinuclear antibody testing; serum protein electrophoresis, urine protein electrophoresis, and immunoelectrophoresis; patient-controlled analgesia; total parenteral nutrition and peripheral parenteral nutrition; and rational lab testing.

This issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics, edited by Dr. Eddy Chen, covers topics including: Being the Oncology Hospitalist; Caring for Acute Leukemics; Blood Transfusions for Cancer Patients; QI Initiatives in Hospitalized Cancer Patients; Febrile Neutropenia - A Closer Look; Chemotherapy Complications - Short and Long Term Issues; Malignant Bowel Obstruction; Tumor Lysis Syndrome; Principles of Radiation Therapy: What Hospitalists Need to Know; and Neoplastic Related Cord Compression.

This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. The eleventh issue in our growing online database, edited by Christopher Kim, covers essential updates in the following topics: diagnosis and management of valvular heart disease, sepsis, infections in hospitalized immunocompromised patients, acid base disorders, subacute bacterial peritonitis, delirium, acute pain, and ophthalmologic emergencies, as well as transfusion medicine and hospital-based QI initiatives.

This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. The premier issue covers essential updates in aortic dissection, ICU prevention practices, HIV medications, hepatorenal syndrome, Clostridium difficile, acute gout, adrenal insufficiency, pain management at the end of life, alcohol withdrawal, and LEAN principles applied to hospital medicine.

This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This second issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the management of class III and IV heart failure; pulmonary hypertension; diabetic foot infections; hyponatremia; acute pancreatitis; management of acute stroke; prevention of deep vein thrombosis; electroconvulsive therapy; advance directives; and legal pitfalls for the hospitalist.

The issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics, Guest Edited by Steven B. Pestka, will include Evidence for Telemetry; Sepsis; Trauma in the Elderly; Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis; Preeclampsia; Enhances in Patient Safety Through Alarms Management; Goals of Care in Oncology Patients; Urology; and Peripheral Artery Disease: What Hospitalists Need To Know For Effective Management.

This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions that practicing hospitalists face daily. This issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics is Guest Editored by Dr. Mark Thoelke. Dr. Thoelke has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Diastolic Dysfunction; Acute Bronchospasm and Asthma; Fungemia in the Hospitalized Patient; Renal-Obsructive Uropathy; Diagnosis and Management of Cholecystitis, Choledocholithiasis, and Other Bililary Disorders; Reservible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome; Paraneoplastic Disorders; All You Need to Know About Prescribing Methadone; Caring for the Actively Dying; and When the patient wants to leave against medical advice: Considerations for the hospitalist and the patient.