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Edited by Ronald M. Perkin, James D. Swift, and Dale A. Newton. 923 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003. $89.95. ISBN 0-7817-3750-8.

Interest in the care of hospitalized children has grown in recent years. An increase in the number of pediatric hospitalists and fellowship programs to train them provides a new system of care and new research opportunities to study the effectiveness of that system. Pediatric Hospital Medicine has the distinction of being the first textbook to focus exclusively on inpatient pediatric medicine.

The editors state that the goals of their book are "to identify the core skills and body of knowledge needed by the pediatric hospitalist." (The term "hospitalist" is defined in the preface of the book as "a clinician spending . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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