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QUIZ: Which of the Following Statements Is True Regarding Hospitalists’ Assessments of Patients’ Decision-Making Capacity?
May 3, 2016
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Benefits of Earlier Palliative Care
May 3, 2016
Offering palliative care early to hospitalized patients with multiple serious conditions could improve care and help reduce healthcare spending, according to “Palliative Care Teams’ Cost-Saving Effect Is Larger for Cancer Patients with Higher Numbers of Comorbidities,” published in Health Affairs.
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Email Alerts Can Help Improve Quality in a Hospital
May 3, 2016
Alert emails can be a simple, low-cost means of improving quality in a hospital, as the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston learned.
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Establishing a Role for Polysomnography in Hospitalized Children
May 2, 2016
Clinical question: What is the role for inpatient polysomnograms for children with medical complexity? [caption id="attachment_13645" align="alignright" width="150"] Dr. Stubblefield[/caption] Background: Sleep-disordered breathing is more common in certain pediatric populations.
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Thrill-Seeking Hospitalist Alleviates Stress Through Scuba Diving
May 1, 2016
Not much intimidates Jasen Gundersen, MD, president of the acute care services division at TeamHealth, an outsourcer of hospital-based clinical and specialty services based in Knoxville, Tenn. Besides traveling 150,000 miles a year overseeing 2,500 hospitalists at 285 facilities, Dr.
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Proposals Pave the Way for New Drugs
April 30, 2016
To promote achievable solutions in the ongoing debate on drug financing, Anthem, Inc.
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Video Feedback Can Be a Helpful Tool for QI, Patient Safety
April 30, 2016
Procedures are the most expensive item in healthcare, but tremendous variation remains in quality. “In part that’ s because we have weak systems of peer support and in part because medicine sanctions a physician to do procedures, and then for the next 40 or 50 years, a surgeon can receive no inpu
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Physicians, Residents, Students Can Learn High-Value, Cost-Conscious Care
April 29, 2016
Clinical question: What are the factors that promote education in delivering high-value, cost-conscious care? Background: Healthcare costs are increasing, with most recent numbers showing U.S. expenditures on healthcare of more than $3 trillion, almost 18% of the gross domestic product.
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Data Show Patients Are More Likely to Die at Night, on Weekends
April 29, 2016
Clinical question: Is there a clinical difference in rates of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and survival to discharge in patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) depending on time of day and day of the week? Background: Current U.S.
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Medicare ‘Hospital Star Rating’ May Correspond to Patient Outcomes
April 29, 2016
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been letting patients grade their hospital experiences, and those "patient experience scores" may give some insight into a hospital's health outcomes, a new study suggests. Some people have been concerned that patient experience isn't the most im
