Background When the senior author graduated from fellowship in 1983 (JIA),
gastroenterology practice model choices were limited to essentially 4: independent …

Clinic Handbook: Gastroenterology provides practical guidelines on the medical and
administrative issues associated with running a gastroenterology-based outpatient clinic …

Previous surveys on the practice of gastroenterology collected limited data on practice
demographics. Gastroenterology practices may have changed over the past decade as a …

Over the last 2 decades, there has been an increase in acuity among hospitalized patients
and patients who present to the emergency department. As such, the role of the hospitalist …

Hepatology, the responsibility for the “Practice Management” special section changed, in
conjunction with overall editorial responsibility, to a new group led by Hashem El-Serag …

Readers are encouraged to write letters to the editor concerning articles that have been
published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Short, general comments are also …

The Supreme Court has weighed in on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (ACA). Few people predicted that the individual mandate to purchase …

Disease management has its roots in total quality management, a set of philosophic
principles and management tools that invigorated American business in the late 1970s and …

opened 1 year later, adding 830,000 square feet, 21 stories, 374 beds, and 30 operating
rooms to our institution and the expectation that we would provide worldclass patient care …

Specialty practice in general, and gastroenterology in particular, is undergoing significant
transformation as we head into the new millennium. Gastroenterologists will need to adapt to …