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Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Hospital Medicine offers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management—and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field—Hospital Medicine includes indications for admission, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms, and critical paths detailing effective, outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders. New chapters in this edition focus on the hospitalist's increasing role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events, and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management.
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Table of Contents
SECTION I: GENERAL ISSUES IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE 1
SECTION II: CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 161
SECTION III: MEDICAL CONSULTATION 233
SECTION IV: CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE 295
SECTION V: VASCULAR MEDICINE 453
SECTION VI: PULMONARY MEDICINE 515
SECTION VII: INFECTIOUS DISEASES 595
SECTION VIII: HIV DISEASE 719
SECTION IX: GASTROENTEROLOGY 749
SECTION X: HEMATOLOGY- ONCOLOGY 883
SECTION XI: RENAL DISEASE 993
SECTION XII: ENDOCRINOLOGY 1067
SECTION XIII: RHEUMATOLOGY 1109
SECTION XIV: NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY 1161
SECTION XV: TOXICOLOGY AND ALLERGY 1219 Index 1251