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How Academic Hospitalists Can Balance Teaching, Nonteaching Roles
March 3, 2015
As a group director at a growing, university-based hospitalist program, I often interview aspiring academic hospitalists. Inevitably, the conversation turns to a coveted aspect of the job. I’m not talking about the salary.
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Society of Hospital Medicine’s Quality Improvement Toolkits Bring Best Practices to Hospitals
March 3, 2015
SHM’s free quality improvement toolkits bring the very best practices in the most pressing hospital issues right to your hospital. With topics like discharging to post-acute care facilities, pain management, and diabetes, SHM helps thousands of hospitals tackle these issues—all with the confidenc
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Greater Transparency for Financial Information in Healthcare Will Prompt Questions from Patients
March 3, 2015
The movement toward greater transparency of financial information in healthcare is providing patients with access to data that might affect their healthcare decisions.
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Clinical Images Capture Hospitalists’ Daily Rounds
March 3, 2015
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fourth in an occasional series of reviews of the Hospital Medicine: Current Concepts series by members of Team Hospitalist. [caption id="attachment_8317" align="alignright" width="300"] Left: Image of patient with rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis, case number 48.Right: Image of
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Hospitalists’ Holistic Approach Draws Monal Shah, MD to Hospital Medicine
March 3, 2015
There was just something about hospitalized patients and the folks who cared for them that drew the attention of Monal Shah, MD. Midway through residency, he decided that the best word for it was respect.
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How to Initiate a VTE Quality Improvement Project
March 3, 2015
While VTE sometimes occurs in spite of the best available prophylaxis, there are many lost opportunities to optimize prevention and reduce VTE risk factors in virtually every hospital.
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Advances in Medical Technology Encourage Hospitalist-Led Bedside Procedures
March 3, 2015
One trend working in favor of more hospitalist-led bedside procedures is the growing use of technology, particularly simulation models and ultrasound guidance.
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De-Escalation Training Prepares Hospitalists to Calm Agitated Patients
March 3, 2015
If a patient shows signs of agitation, Aaron Gottesman, MD, SFHM, says the best way to handle it is to stay calm. It may sound simple, but, in the heat of the moment, people tend to become defensive and on guard rather than acting composed and sympathetic.
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Hospitalists Should Lead Training, Preparedness for Hospital Violence Prevention
March 3, 2015
On Jan. 20, a 44-year old surgeon was shot and killed in the middle of the day at one of the country’s top hospitals.
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Opinion
Geographic Rounding of Hospital Nurses Challenges Unit-Based Theory
March 3, 2015
Nurses, of course, have always been assigned by unit—that is, geographically. So it should come as no surprise that searching “unit-based” at the-hospitalist.org returns many articles about assigning hospitalists geographically, but not nurses, partly because few would consider it a new idea.
