Top Articles in Pediatric Hospital Medicine

[摘要] This year was an extraordinary year to review the literature for the top articles in hospital medicine. We were given the somewhat daunting task of compiling the articles and presenting the results at the annual Pediatric Hospital Medicine conference in July 2012. As we embarked on this task before us, we first had to decide how to choose the articles. We did what pediatric hospitalists do when they have a question: we asked the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine Listserv. As our faithful Listserv participants always do, you provided us with great suggestions for some of the best articles. Our strategy to find additional articles was twofold. We depended on Mark Shen’s vast subscription list (journals, electronic Table of Contents, and other electronic update services). The other half of our strategy was simple but even more involved: reviewing all articles published by Samir Shah over the past 12 months. We chose articles from a variety of journals over a 12-month period (July 2011–July 2012).Although we were expected to present 10 articles, we actually reviewed 30 articles and highlighted these at the “Top 10 Articles of the Year in Pediatric Hospital Medicine” session at the annual conference. Once again, pediatric hospitalists from far and wide gathered together for lunch and to hear our thoughts on the year’s best articles. We imparted our review of the best literature related to pediatric hospital medicine and threw in some articles from other scientific arenas along with some multimedia to round out the presentation.Our review is meant to provide you with our interpretation of the literature and offer you the relevant bottom line from the articles. This is not journal club. We will not discuss or debate the validity of using a Bonferroni correction or the Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous …

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