Main description:

This book presents the first evidence-based casebook for hospitalists and other hospital-based physicians, associated staff, and trainees. Each clinical chapter concludes with practical "pearls" for application to the user's own practice. Based on and expanded from the wildly popular Clinical Care Conundrum (CCC) series in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, this attractive new volume combines high-quality images and text to form an indispensable reference and study text for the wards or the classroom.

Contents:

PREFACE ix CONTRIBUTORS xi CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL CARE CONUNDRUMS IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE 1 Robert M. Wachter CHAPTER 2 IMPROVING DIAGNOSTIC SAFETY IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE: CAN CLINICAL CARE CONUNDRUMS HELP? 5 Edward E. Etchells, Kaveh G. Shojania, and Donald A. Redelmeier CHAPTER 3 CRACKING THE CASE 19 Jennei Wei, Patrick P. Kneeland, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal CHAPTER 4 A MIDLIFE CRISIS 27 Jennifer R. Lukela, Rajesh S. Mangrulkar, Lawrence M. Tierney Jr., John Del Valle, and Sanjay Saint CHAPTER 5 FISHING FOR A DIAGNOSIS 35 Colin R. Cooke, John V. L. Sheffield, and Jan V. Hirschmann CHAPTER 6 A RASH DECISION 43 Brian J. Harte, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Wendy Armstrong, and James C. Pile CHAPTER 7 ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER 51 Thomas E. Baudendistel, Nima Afshar, and Lawrence M. Tierney Jr. CHAPTER 8 THE THIRD TIME S THE CHARM 59 Sara Mekuria, Esteban Cheng Ching, S. A. Josephson, Jinny Tavee, and Brian J. Harte CHAPTER 9 A FRAYED KNOT 69 Thomas E. Baudendistel, Irena L. Ilic, and Harry Hollander CHAPTER 10 BETTER LATE THAN NEVER 77 Anuradha Ramaswamy, Maytee Boonyapredee, Ramakrishnan Ranganath, Brian J. Harte, and James C. Pile CHAPTER 11 THINKING INSIDE THE BOX 87 Damon M. Kwan, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, and Thomas E. Baudendistel CHAPTER 12 ARE WE THERE YET? 95 Lisa H. Williams, Gregory J. Raugi, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Sanjay Saint, and Benjamin A. Lipsky CHAPTER 13 A DISTINGUISHING FEATURE 105 Sanjiv J. Shah, Aubrey O. Ingraham, Sandra Y. Chung, and Richard J. Haber CHAPTER 14 CONSEQUENCES OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES 113 Julia C. Dombrowski, Helen Kao, Natasha Renda, and R. J. Kohlwes CHAPTER 15 IN SIGHT BUT OUT OF MIND 121 Letizia Attala, Adam Tremblay, Giampaolo Corti, Sanjay Saint, and Alessandro Bartoloni CHAPTER 16 A CHANGE OF HEART 127 Jonathan P. Piccini, Adrian F. Hernandez, Louis R. Dibernardo, Joseph G. Rogers, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal CHAPTER 17 MISSING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES 137 Satish Gopal, James C. Pile, and Daniel J. Brotman CHAPTER 18 A PAIN IN THE BONE 143 John Fani Srour, Julia Braza, and Gerald W. Smetana CHAPTER 19 A DIAGNOSIS OF EXCLUSION 153 Iris O. Yung, Thomas E. Baudendistel, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal CHAPTER 20 MAKING A LIST AND CHECKING IT TWICE 161 Satyen Nichani, Sandro Cinti, and Jeffrey H. Barsuk CHAPTER 21 CAUGHT IN THE WEB: E-DIAGNOSIS 169 Yasuharu Tokuda, Makoto Aoki, Saurabh B. Kandpal, and Lawrence M. Tierney Jr. CHAPTER 22 IN THE FACE OF IT ALL 177 Amit Garg, Thomas E. Baudendistel, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal INDEX 185