Quality Improvement–Focused Departmental Grand Rounds Reports: A Strategy to Engage General Surgery Residents

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Department Grand Rounds

Quality grand rounds: the case for patient safety.

In this issue, we present the 13th and final article in the Quality Grand Rounds series, the case of an elderly woman admitted to a teaching hospital early in the academic year with a mild episode of acute pancreatitis (1). Despite initial improvement, her condition deteriorated over the course of several days; her ultimate death was attributable to delayed diagnosis and management of a small-b...

Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds series (course number MGR18074) seeks to promote excellence and quality in clinical care; introduce clinicians to recent advances in medical care; provide updates on scientific advances that affect the practice of medicine; and provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of psychiatry to the broader community. Events a...

Hypertension Grand Rounds Gitelman Syndrome

Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal-recessive renal tubular disorder characterized by hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, hypocalciuria, metabolic alkalosis, secondary hyperreninemic aldosteronism, and low blood pressure.1–3 GS patients are usually diagnosed relatively late, because malaise, low blood pressure, hypokalemia, hypocalciuria, and hypomagnesemia are difficult to categorize clinically. I...