<DIV><P>Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, <B>Hospital Medicine</B> offers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management&#8212;and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field&#8212;<B>Hospital Medicine</B> includes indications for admission, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms, and critical paths detailing effective, outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders. New chapters in this edition focus on the hospitalist's increasing role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events, and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management.</P></DIV>