Hospitalists and improved cost savings in patients with bacterial pneumonia at a state level.

Objectives: In the hospitalist literature, most studies have focused on outcomes related to cost savings for individual hospital systems. This study sought to determine if hospitalists could improve cost savings at a state level.

Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of a statewide database for inpatients in 2002 with bacterial pneumonia.

Diabetic gustatory sweating.

Gustatory sweating is a potential manifestation of autonomic dysfunction in diabetes. This syndrome is seen in long-standing diabetes and is associated with nephropathy, peripheral neuropathy, and other signs of dysautonomia. Symptoms of profuse head and neck diaphoresis with eating may suggest this clinical diagnosis.