Florida Maroun Sfeir, MD; Marissa Tysiak, PharmD; Rossana Rosa, MD; Lo Kaming, MPH; Lilian Abbo, MD; Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/ Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL; University of Miami Hospital, Miami, FL; Internal Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL; Divison of Biostatistics, Miami, FL; Medicine, Division o...

Dong-Won Yoo, M.D., Sang Hyuk Park, M.D., Jongyoun Yi, M.D., In-Suk Kim, M.D., Hyung-Hoi Kim, M.D., Chulhun L. Chang, M.D., and Eun Yup Lee, M.D. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan; Departm...

1College of Health Sciences and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; 2Department of Radiography, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy; 4Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Protection, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; 5Department of Dia...

Namhee Kim, M.D., In-Suk Kim, M.D., Chulhun Ludgerus Chang, M.D., Eun Yup Lee, M.D., Hyung Hoi Kim, M.D., Moo-Kon Song, M.D., Ho-Jin Shin, M.D., and Joo Seop Chung, M.D. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan; Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National Unive...

From the Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Veterans Administration Hospital, Denver, Colorado Supported by United States Public Health Service grants AM-06344, HE-07735, AM-07772, AI-04152, FR-00051, FR-00069 and F05-TW-1154, AM-12148 and AI-AM-08898. 'Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Chief, Surgical Service, Veterans Administr...

Determining the cause of recurrent unexplained syncope remains a clinical challenge and a permanent quest. Guidelines and multiple studies emphasize that a clear deductive method based on a thorough interrogation and examination can usually disclose the etiology of syncope in the majority of cases (2). Nonetheless, in daily clinical practice, applying a simple comprehensive diagnostic approach ...

Background Crowded departments are a common problem in Danish hospitals, especially in departments of internal medicine, where a large proportion of the patients are elderly. We therefore chose to investigate the number and character of hospitalizations of elderly patients with a duration of less than 24 hours, as such short admissions could indicate that the patients had not been severely ill ...

Jing Li, Huashan Wang, Qiang Zhong, Xiangdong Zhu, Sy-Jou Chen, Yuanyu Qian, Jim Costakis, Gabrielle Bunney, David G. Beiser, Alan R. Leff, E. Douglas Lewandowski, J. Michael O Donnell, and Terry L. Vanden Hoek Program in Advanced Resuscitation Medicine, Center for Cardiovascular Research, and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Chicago, I...

Professor Michael Abramson, Deputy Head, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne Professor Alan J Crockett, Professor of Clinical Respiratory Physiology, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia; Emeritus Fellow, Discipline of General Practice, School of Population Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide Dr Eli Dabscheck, Staff Specialist...

Academic hospital medicine can be described as comprising periods of "systole," during which hospitalists provide clinical care, and periods of "diastole," the portion of a hospitalist's time spent in nonclinical activities. Far from being a period of relaxation, diastole is an active component of a hospitalist's work, the time devoted to the pursuit of career advancement. This period is a crit...