News
HMX Term of the Month: Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)
January 2, 2013
HCAHPS is a national, standardized survey of hospital patients created to publicly report patients’ perspective of hospital care
News
Medicaid Payments for Some Primary-Care Services Reach Parity with Medicare Levels
January 2, 2013
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) recommendations lead to payments by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for hospitalist-related codes
News
ITL: Physician Reviews of HM-Relevant Research
January 1, 2013
Systematic review highlights several interventions that improve discharge handovers; Longer duration of in-hospital cardiac resuscitation associated with increased survival; Early sepsis intervention strategies decrease mortality, length of stay, and cost; Hypoglycemia associated with increased mortality in the critically ill; Increased bleeding risk for cardiac patients on multiple antithrombotic drugs; Hospitalist-run preoperative clinic improves outcomes in complex surgical patients; Delirium after cardiac surgery associated with prolonged cognitive impairment; Benefits of resuming anticoagulation after GI bleed outweigh risks for most patients; Preoperative hyponatremia associated with increased risk for perioperative complications and mortality
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News
Pediatric Hospitalists Trust Their Gut with Serious Infections
January 1, 2013
Timely recognition of serious infections in children is difficult, but critical to improved outcomes
News
When Should an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Be Treated?
January 1, 2013
An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) should be repaired when the risk of rupture outweighs the risks of surgical repair
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News
Shaun Frost: Call for Transparency in Healthcare Performance Results to Impact Hospitalists
January 1, 2013
The federal Institute of Medicine (IOM), entrepreneurs, and consumer groups ramp up the power of public reporting
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News
Bipartisan Proposal to Repeal SGR Plan Likely to be Reintroduced
January 1, 2013
The Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act of 2012 would replace the sustainable growth rate formula with a cost-effective model designed to promote quality and value through coordinated patient care
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News
Danielle Scheurer, MD: Hospital Providers Put Premium on Keeping Themselves, Hospital Patients Safe
January 1, 2013
Role of hospitalists should be to help create and maintain safe and effective work conditions for themselves, patients, and providers
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Opinion
John Nelson, MD: A New Hospitalist
January 1, 2013
How the hospital medicine practice has changed greatly over the past three decades
News
Host of Factors Play Into Hospitalist Billing for Patient Transfers
January 1, 2013
Know your role in patient tranfers and avoid common billing mistakes
