2013 Literature Update in Hospital Medicine

The Update in Hospital Medicine is designed to keep readers informed about the current state of the literature. For this update, the authors searched journals from mid-January 2013 to February 2014 and sought high-impact articles that had the capability of practice change or practice confirmation for hospitalists. The authors' initial review yielded 577 articles; from this group, a secondary review targeting those with the highest potential for clinical usefulness yielded 49 articles. From this subgroup, the authors selected the 10 articles from the year that were most likely to affect patient care.