Background: Mitochondrial disease (MD) refers to a group of clinically heterogeneous disorders that result from dysfunctional oxidative phosphorylation and subsequent cellular incapability to meet energy demands. Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), myoclonus, epilepsy, ataxia with ragged red fibers (MERRFs), chronic progressive ophthalmoplegia, Kearns–Sayre syndrome, and sensory ataxia neuropathy dysarthria ophthalmoplegia are among […]

Background: As hospitals work to reduce avoidable hospital readmission rates, health care delivery systems more broadly have been working to develop efficient, effective health care delivery models under the rubric of accountable care organizations (ACOs). As the principal providers of inpatient‐based care, hospitalists can build on their quality improvement experience in transitions of care to […]

Background: ACGME Milestones and Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) have emerged as benchmarks for the professional development of house staff. Residents must demonstrate expertise in these patient care activities in order to progress in training, and thus, programs will require tools for direct observation in order to evaluate these skills. These tools must evaluate milestone‐specific performance […]

Background: Postmyocardial Infarction Syndrome (PMIS), also called Dressler syndrome or Post-pericardiotomy Syndrome, refers to a heterogeneous group of autoimmune-mediated conditions of pericardial, epicardial and myocardial inflammation following myocardial infarction. Generally considered to be rare in the reperfusion era, the features and risk factors of PMIS are less well characterized in the contemporary era. This study […]