Clinical Care Conundrums

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