Description

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Introducing the first evidence-based casebook for hospital clinicians

This book introduces illustrated, evidence-based clinical cases drawn from real-world hospital practice. Geared to the needs of hospital clinicians, Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine focuses on sharpening clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, giving readers the tools to recognize and diagnose a wide array of diseases, while promoting diagnostic safety in hospital medicine.

Written by leading experts on the topics under discussion, this volume offers a hand-picked collection of case studies from the widely popular Clinical Care Conundrum (CCC) series found in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Each chapter presents a case to an expert clinician, who explains his or her approach to diagnosing challenging medical dilemmas. Each chapter concludes with a concise review of recent literature and, if applicable, with discussions of cognitive errors that may impact clinical diagnosis and patient care. Readers will find:

• An appealing presentation style that combines high-quality images and text
• Coverage of both common conditions and uncommon but important diseases encountered in the hospital setting
• A look at the state of the art of clinical reasoning, an area of critical interest to clinicians
• Practical "pearls" for each case study that readers can apply in their own practice

Clinical Care Conundrums is an indispensable reference for hospitalists, hospital-based physicians and midlevel providers, physicians-in-training, and the many other medical practitioners who come up against difficult cases on a daily basis.

About the Author

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James C. Pile, MD, FACP, FHM, Thomas E. Baudendistel, MD, FACP, and Brian Harte, MD, FACP, FHM, are all Deputy Editors of the Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM), and co-editors of JHM's "Clinical Care Conundrum" series since journal inception. Together they have overseen the review process for, reviewed, and in many cases co-authored the CCC's to be included in each journal issue.