Larry Beresford is an Alameda, Calif.-based freelance medical journalist with a breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, administrative and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death, and dying. He has is a longtime contributor to The Hospitalist magazine, for which he covers re-admissions, pain management, quality, waste prevention, innovation, and technology. He also writes Hospice Compliance Letter (www.hospicecompliance.net) and the Hospice House Network’s Flutter newsletter (www.hospicehouse.us ). Learn more about his work at www.larryberesford.com; follow him on Twitter @larryberesford.
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Fewer Hospital-Acquired Conditions Saves Estimated 50,000 Lives
Estimated total number of saved lives from 2011 to 2013 as a result of reductions in the incidence of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) in U.S....
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Oncology, Surgical Hospitalists Most Common as Subspecialties Gain Followers
The recent rise of specialty hospitalists, particularly in the surgery and oncology fields, has benefitted hospitals and patients alike.
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LISTEN NOW: Bob Wachter discusses ACOs, managed care, and his new book
Bob Wachter, MD, MHM, chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, talks about Accountable Care...
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69%: hospitals with perfect hand-hygiene compliance
69%: the percentage of hospitals that had perfect compliance with the Leapfrog Group employer coalition’s safe practices for hand hygiene in its...
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$167 billion: hospital payments forfeited for choosing not to expand Medicaid
$167 billion: Amount of federal Medicaid reimbursement payments that hospitals will forego between 2013 and 2022 in states that have opted not to...
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UpToDate Adds Palliative Care
UpToDate, a leading clinical decision support resource for physicians, in July added palliative care as the newest of its 22 medical specialties...
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Wired and Wireless Hospitals Step to the Fore
Hospitals and Health Networks in July presented its 16th annual list of Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems. Rigorous criteria were used to...
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LISTEN NOW: Steve Pantilat, MD, SFHM, explains hospitalists' role in palliative care
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Hospitalist Tips for Talking to Seriously Ill Patients
The need to relieve patients’ suffering should not be the reason for withdrawing life-sustaining interventions in the ICU, Steven Z.
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Hospitalists’ Role in Health Reform Evolves
Hospital medicine guru Bob Wachter, MD, MHM, offers an optimistic view of hospitalists’ role in healthcare as reform measures continue to reshape...
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Antibiotic Overprescribing Sparks Call for Stronger Stewardship
Antibiotic overprescription remains a problem in the U.S. and abroad and shows no signs of slowing.
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Medicare Readmissions Penalties Expected to Reach $428 Million
CMS started the third year of its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program on October 1, with 2,610 U.S.
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In-Room Computer Tablets Help Hospital Patients Learn, Communicate
New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital is among a growing number of healthcare systems nationwide providing patients with tablet computing devices....
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Inpatient Strokes Average 4.5 Hours From Recognition to Computed Tomography
Time, in hours, from recognition of stroke symptoms to computed tomography for hospitalized patients, compared with 1.3 hours for stroke patients...
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For Patients in Clinical Trials, Health, Safety Top Concerns for Hospitalists
Patients might come into a hospitalist’s care when they are in the middle of a clinical trial. What then? The first step for a hospitalist is to...