Background: Current approaches to addressing central venous catheter (CVC) identification and discontinuation in the general medicine population remain largely ineffective. A recently published observational study reported that 26% of teaching physicians and 31% of hospitalists were not able to accurately identify the presence of a CVC in a patient under their care. Since preventable line-related [...]

Background: In academic medicine, the first presentation of a scholarly product is often a poster or oral presentation at national conferences. Only about half of these presentations are eventually published, suggesting the conference may be the author’s only opportunity to disseminate information about their work. Studies have shown that posters have the most impact when combined [...]