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Foresight and hard work – not inevitability – shaped HM, CEO says
May 3, 2017
“The future fits what hospital medicine is all about: We’re about value, we’re about creating the new future,” SHM CEO Dr. Laurence Wellikson said during his plenary address Wednesday.
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Forum focuses on forging Q.I. connections
May 3, 2017
Scrounging for information that could help her with quality improvement (Q.I.) projects, Charmaine Lewis, MD, MPH, the quality director with New Hanover Hospitalists in Wilmington, N.C., said she finds herself reviewing posters at the Annual Meeting and squinting at the images to see whether the...
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Hospitalists offer tips on QI projects
May 3, 2017
Anjala Tess, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, asked the audience how many of them had done a quality improvement project that had failed. It was not a time to be bashful: Almost half the hospitalists ...
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Workshop to help hospitalists with patient flow
May 3, 2017
Thursday at HM17, a panel of experts will lead small workshops of audience members on how to put the “go” back in the flow.
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Diabetes specialist to offer disease management tips
May 3, 2017
An endocrinologist will walk the audience through four major points on caring for diabetes patients in a talk to be given Thursday at HM17.
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Culture change necessary to weed out health care overuse
May 3, 2017
Chris Moriates, MD, assistant dean for healthcare value and associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, drew insight from writer David Foster Wallace on Tuesday afternoon as he discussed overuse in hospital care.He cited a story by Wallace: Two young...
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Experts to review ‘hot topics’ in pediatric hospital medicine research
May 3, 2017
Two pediatric hospitalists reviewed every issue from 18 relevant journals over the last year and chose studies that involve important, evolving clinical questions that any physician caring for hospitalized children should know about.
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Hospitalists can do better at end-of-life care, expert says
May 3, 2017
High-value care can remain elusive for the most vulnerable of populations.
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On the big stage, SHM leaders discuss pressing issues
May 2, 2017
Dr. Brian Harte and Dr. Ron Greeno talk about the path forward for SHM.
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Attendees drill down on infections at ID boot camp
May 2, 2017
If you haven't seen any cases of Candida auris yet, you will soon, one expert predicts.
