Thomas R. Collins
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New Oral Anticoagulants Advance Treatment Options, Create Complications for Hospitalists
February 1, 2013
While oral anticoagulants are expected to help streamline hospitalized patients' care and discharge, questions remain about their effect on admissions and length of stay
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Why Hospitalists Should Pay Special Attention to Kidney Disease
December 13, 2012
Kidney disease the top diagnosis linked to readmission and death, study finds
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Nephrologist Acknowledges Hospitalist Evolution, Importance to Patient Care
December 2, 2012
Ted Shaikewitz, MD, of Durham Nephrology Associates, offers a nephrologists' perspective of evolution of hospitalists and what that has meant for patient care.
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12 Things Hospitalists Need to Know About Nephrology
December 2, 2012
Kidney experts offer tips to help hospitalists better care for their patients
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Anticoagulant’s Receives FDA Approval to Treat Deep Vein Thrombosis, Pulmonary Embolism
November 8, 2012
Rivaroxaban's new indications for DVT, PE a "major breakthrough," experts say
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Joaquin Cigarroa, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University, discuss the overlap of cardiology and hospital medicine
October 10, 2012
Dr. Cigarroa is clinical chief of cardiology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland
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Guidelines Drive Optimal Care for Heart Failure Patients
October 1, 2012
For patients with heart failure, adhering to recommended therapies reduces 24-month mortality risk
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12 Things Cardiologists Think Hospitalists Need to Know
October 1, 2012
Experts offer practical advice to help you care for the growing number of heart-failure patients.
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Follow-Up Appointments Essential for Heart Failure Patients
October 1, 2012
Risk of rehospitalization low for heart-failure patients who follow-up with their outpatient doctors
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Expert Discusses How to Have Conversations with Dissatisfied Hospitalists
September 12, 2012
Len Scarpinato, chief medical officer of clinical development with Cogent-HMG, discusses the rise in physicians choosing HM as a career and how to have conversations with dissatisfied hospitalists
