Background:  The Society of Hospital Medicine considers stroke care a core competency in hospital medicine.  It also challenges hospitalists to lead, coordinate, and participate in multidisciplinary efforts to improve stroke care within their organizations.  Hospitalist trainees will be better positioned to accomplish this if they have a broad exposure to the continuum of stroke care [...]

Background: The CHADS2 score is widely used risk stratification model for stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The impact of height and other anthropometric measurements on the risk of stroke in patients with low CHADS2 score is yet to be identified. We aimed to evaluate the association between height and stroke in AF patients with [...]

Background: Guidelines and quality performance measures recommend venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in patients hospitalized with stroke if they have paralysis or are confined to bed and also recommend that all hospitalized medical patients have VTE risk assessment performed. The Padua Prediction Score is a validated VTE risk prediction model for medical patients based on clinical [...]

Case Presentation: A 27-year-old man with HIV/AIDS was directly admitted to the hospital by his infectious disease specialist for worsening and recurrent headaches accompanied by a multitude of episodic neurologic symptoms, including off-balance sensations, left arm numbness and tingling, left-sided decreased hearing, and slurred speech.  He had a history of shingles five months prior which [...]