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Editorials |18 July 2017

Annals for Hospitalists: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of an Easier Way for Hospitalists to Access Annals

David H. Wesorick, MD; Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc

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  • From University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

    Disclosures: The authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M17-1234.

    Requests for Single Reprints: David H. Wesorick, MD, University of Michigan, 3119 Taubman Center, Box 0376, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; e-mail, davidwes@med.umich.edu.

    Current Author Addresses: Dr. Wesorick: University of Michigan, 3119 Taubman Center, Box 0376, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

    Dr. Chopra: University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16 #432W, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

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Annals of Internal Medicine publishes many important articles on a range of topics, so how does a busy hospitalist quickly identify hospitalist-relevant material? One year ago, Annals launched Annals for Hospitalists. This feature highlights hospitalist-relevant content and brings perspectives from leaders in the field to clinicians, policymakers, and researchers. To date, more than 112 000 people are registered to receive, the e-mail alerts.
Annals for Hospitalists identifies relevant articles and provides brief summaries of these articles, tailored to a hospitalist's perspective. Over the past year, Annals for Hospitalists has summarized more than 45 Annals articles, including original research, guidelines, and editorials. Hospitalists who read Annals for Hospitalists know that it guides them to the articles that are likely to inform and change practice—articles like the meta-analysis that demonstrated the benefits of using an age-adjusted D-dimer level to rule out pulmonary embolism (1), or the Ideas and Opinions piece that warned clinicians of the high variability among the many D-dimer assays (2). Annals for Hospitalists also summarized the first double-blind, randomized controlled trial of fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridium difficle infection (3), as well as a systematic review that challenged conventional thinking about early feeding in patients with acute pancreatitis (4). Without Annals for Hospitalists, some hospitalists might have missed key articles, such as how the HEART score can improve triage of patients with chest pain (5), or that high-sensitivity troponin testing may change the way we rule out myocardial...
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Wesorick DH, Chopra V. Annals for Hospitalists: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of an Easier Way for Hospitalists to Access Annals. Ann Intern Med. 2017;167:135–136. doi: 10.7326/M17-1234

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2017;167(2):135-136.

DOI: 10.7326/M17-1234

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