In the modern American hospital, clinicians spend as little as 12% of their time in direct contact with patients and their families. This has led to a decline in clinical examination skills and contributes to diagnostic error. In 2017, the Society of Bedside Medicine was formed to encourage innovation, education, and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st century medicine.
International travel has become an increasingly complex issue as a risk factor for infectious diseases. This review examines important considerations when evaluating travelers, with a special focus on the risk of emerging infectious diseases, by placing clinical syndromes in a travel context.
This review discusses the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of patients presenting with myxedema coma or thyroid storm. If not promptly and appropriately diagnosed and treated, both conditions are associated with poor outcomes and high mortality rates.
This review discusses herpes virus infection in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), focusing on the prevalence and diagnosis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and prevalence of single or mixed herpes virus infection in addition to CMV. The significance of CMV genotyping in UC is also examined.
This review discusses new guidelines addressing the management of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and Barrett esophagus.
This review describes the role of fecal markers in the diagnostic workup of common conditions encountered in gastroenterology clinics.
This review scrutinizes new evidence and challenges regarding the use of menopausal hormone therapy.
This review examines the 2017 clinical guidelines on Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile infection (CDI) from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
This review focuses on motivations behind deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists (BZRAs) used in patients with insomnia and summarizes key messages from the new guidelines on deprescribing BZRAs.
This case-based review investigates evidence from clinical trials and observational studies to answer key questions regarding the perioperative management of patients receiving antiplatelet therapy.
McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine acknowledges the important contribution of Cochrane Canada and its authors in development of the textbook.
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