Thomas R. Collins
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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
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Speak Up: Getting Hospitalists to Voice Dissatisfaction Isn’t Easy
September 10, 2012
HM group directors need to be "in tune" with colleagues' job satisfaction, outside interests
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Are Your Hospitalists Bored?
August 29, 2012
A toolkit to keep your hospitalists fulfilled, engaged, and happy.
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Hospitalists Should Prepare for the Patient-Centered Medical Home
July 3, 2012
As the “patient-centered medical home” model gains steam, hospitalists should know what’s coming
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The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Primer
July 3, 2012
The main components of the PCMH and how they’ve been implemented in real practice
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Should Hospitalists Be Concerned about the PCHM Model?
July 3, 2012
If the "patient-centered medical home" model does what it intends to do fewer people will likely be hospitalized.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) appears to reduce hospitalizations, but AHRQ says good evidence still lacking
July 2, 2012
Researchers estimate that it could take 10 years to get reliable results
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: HM Chief Discusses Hospitalist Role in Patient-Centered Medical Home
July 2, 2012
Kevin Eichhorn, MD, hospital medicine chief at Dean Health System in Wisconsin, discusses the hospitalist’s role in the patient-centered medical home model
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to new physician editor Danielle Scheurer’s vision for The Hospitalist
April 11, 2012
One goal is to make the-hospitalist.org more interactive, allowing for more direct participation from readers