“Nobody Does Nothing Better Than a Hospitalist”

[摘要] Welcome to Volume 4 of Hospital Pediatrics. It’s nearly impossible not to lead with a cliché. Another year gone in the blink of an eye—but it really does feel like that. In keeping with the outrageous pace of our discipline, the journal goes bimonthly this year. We also get a nifty new cover and, oh by the way, we’ll be MEDLINE indexed this year!But before we anticipate our future, let’s take a minute to reflect on 2013. Read even a single issue from last year, and you’ll quickly get a picture of the things our community cares about and the questions we need to answer to improve the care of hospitalized children. To the outside observer, some of these questions might not look like much: the cost of an intravenous catheter placement, a few extra doses of antibiotic, or a few extra hours in the hospital due to a contaminant in a blood culture. How can all this really matter? Now, pause for a moment and shift perspectives. Do you think it would matter to you if it were your child getting those extra sticks for an intravenous catheter placement or an unnecessary test, or staying an unnecessary night in the hospital? I think it would, and so what matters to us, who stand at these bedsides every day, is doing research that will lead us to create the hospital we want for our own children. I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing, and I’d like to offer a personal thank you to everyone who contributed to the journal last year, including our volunteer reviewers (whom you will find listed at the end of this …

[学科分类] 儿科学

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