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July 2008
Cover Feature
Striving for 100% customer satisfaction
Hospitalist leaders debate the costs and benefits of patient satisfaction surveys
As patient satisfaction figures more prominently in health care and quality measurement, some worry that hospitals' standard patient satisfaction surveys don’t accurately measure hospitalist care. How should hospitalists prepare for future use of satisfaction data?
July '08
Letter from the Editor
July '08
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to CAM, alternative scheduling
July '08
Write to the editor
July '08
Cartoon caption contest
July’s winning entry
July '08
In the News
Report: Many elderly take inappropriate prescription drugs
July '08
News Update
Quick response, teamwork protected patients during heparin recall
As pharmacists monitored hospital supplies, physicians and nurses monitored patients
July '08
Internal Medicine 2008
For glucose control, balance is key
An expert offers tips on finding the right insulin combination.
July '08
Don't just do something, stand there
Less can be more for the hospitalized elderly.
July '08
Update in hospital medicine highlights sepsis, community-acquired pneumonia
New research could help guide treatment.
July '08
Fight burnout while fostering experience
Investing in hospitalist programs now can pay off later.
July '08
Medical ethics in the line of fire
Physicians debate dilemmas posed by the war on terror.
July '08
FDA Update
Drug alerts, recalls, approvals
July '08
Web Watch
Swap innovation ideas online
July '08
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself: Seizures
July '08
Research News
Journal watch
Recent studies of note
July '08
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