Features
Article: Hospitalist Business Drivers
How hospitalists can increase their value to hospital CEO's and CFO's by improving communication among clinical staff, adhering better to guidelines, and shortening LOS
Article: Family Affairs
A fundamental shift: family-centered rounds in an academic medical center
Article: Partners in Performance & Quality Care
Whatever the name—guidelines, order sets, pathways, protocols—these tools fit hospitalists like a glove
Cover Story: The Gender Factor
Hospital medicine: a more inclusive specialty for women physicians?
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News
Article: Hospitalist Tracks
A growing trend puts residents on the route to successful careers
Article: The Dutch Medical Education
The teaching professor in a non-academic setting: a new institution in the Netherlands
Article: A Trace of Improvement
What hospitalists need to know about JCAHO’s tracer methodology and periodic performance review
Article: Information Overload
The ways in which we receive and process data confound; an overview of the issues surrounding the display and management of medical data
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Departments
In the Literature: Cardiac Resynchronization Added to Medical Therapy, Patient Handoffs Critical, Home-Hospital Care for Seniors
Article: A Midwest Partnership
HealthPartners in Minnesota helps shape hospital medicine—politely
Alliances: Like Mortar and Pestle
A valuable collaboration: hospitalists as seen through the pharmacist’s lens
Article: 11 Steps to a Successful Transition
Society Pages: Survey Responses Exceed Goal
Data gathering complete for the 2005-2006 Productivity and Compensation Survey
What’s Your Diagnosis?: A Case of Shortness of Breath, Abdominal Pain, and Hematuria
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Columns
Progress Notes: A Tale of Two Thrombi
Two patients, two docs, twice the drama
Career Development: Hospitalist Burnout
Recognize it in yourself and others, and avoid or eliminate it
Public Policy: Medicare Pays for Performance
CMS pays top-performing hospitals in three-year demo project
Flashback: An Historic Puzzler
SHM Point of View: Critical Coalition
SHM saves lives as leader of the DVT Awareness Coalition
President’s Column: A Landmark Event
The launch of the Journal of Hospital Medicine
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May 2012
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