Michael B. Rothberg

TL;DR: Hospitals engaged in both public reporting and pay for performance achieved modestly greater improvements in quality than did hospitals engaged only in public reporting.

TL;DR: A comprehensive update of the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches focusing on endocrine and radiological features as well as surgical options for clinically inapparent adrenal masses is provided.

TL;DR: The increase in the number of hospitalizations for severe sepsis coupled with declining in-hospital mortality and declining geometric mean cost per case may reflect improvements in care or increases in discharges to skilled nursing facilities; however, these findings more likely represent changes in documentation and hospital coding practices that could bias efforts to conduct national surveillance.

TL;DR: During influenza season, treatment of pneumonia should include empiric coverage for this pathogen, and increasing resistance to amantadine and perhaps neuraminidase inhibitors underscores the need for novel prevention and treatment strategies.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of randomized trials of warfarin therapy for individuals and the expected benefit for groups at varying risk for cardiovascular disease and bleeding found that patients at the highest risk for recurrent cardiovascular events should derive the most benefit, which may be offset in those with increased bleeding risk.