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

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 infarction (6). Last year, Annals for Hospitalists also highlighted more than 30 ACP Journal Club summaries of topics judged to be of interest to hospitalists. Thus, hospitalists no longer need to skim the full table of contents of every Annals issue—Annals for Hospitalists does this for them, and delivers exactly what they need, right to their e-mail.