Case Presentation: A 60‐year‐old man with hepatitis C and gout presented to our hospital with rash and ataxia. He was on week 10 of treatment for hepatitis C with peginterferon, ribavirin, and telaprevir. One week before admission he developed an ascending erythematous rash starting at his shins. His hepatitis C treatment was discontinued, but his […]

Background: Family centered rounds (FCR) is an important approach in patient care that allows for multi-disciplinary collaboration and active involvement of patients and families in shared medical decision making. FCR has been recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as a standard of care but the definition and implementation of FCR can be highly […]

Case Presentation: A 61‐year‐old visiting Trinidadian woman with squamous‐cell rectal cancer and hypertension who had received multiple courses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy beginning in May 2012 and was hospitalized in July 2012 at a New York hospital for suspected chemotherapy‐induced anemia. During this hospitalization she received 3 units of packed red blood cells (pRBCs). […]

Background: Family-centered rounds on our pediatric hospital medicine teaching service, which cares for patients in multiple units throughout the hospital, are often prolonged with unpredictable progression. This contributes to inconsistent nursing participation, inefficiencies in patient care, and variable end times. Through the implementation of scheduled-based rounding, our aims were to: 1) start 90% of rounds […]