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    Hospitalists Driving LOS Optimization

    July 5, 2023

    In our current post-COVID-19 world, few topics come up more frequently in hospitalist meetings than length of stay (LOS). The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted profit margins across the...

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    Use of Ketamine in Hospitalized Patients

    July 5, 2023

    Ketamine, a dissociative agent, is listed on the 21st WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for basic health care systems. It first gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval as an anesthetic...

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    The Holy Grail of Survey Design: Achieving a 90% Response Rate

    July 5, 2023

    In this talk, Ms. Keniston, director of data and analytics in the division of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colo., provided an overview of survey design. Dr. Michtalik,...

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    Retaining Physicians is Crucial and Can be Hard—But It’s Possible

    July 5, 2023

    Employee retention sign and figurines on the memo sticks. As he stood before the audience talking about the high rate at which physicians are leaving health care, and the challenges to retaining...

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    Buprenorphine 101: A Quick Start Guide for Every Hospitalist

    July 5, 2023

    In this workshop, the presenters provided an overview of the diagnosis and management of opioid use disorder (OUD) and an introduction to medication for opioid use disorders (MOUD). The presenters...

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    Experts Say Racism a Too-common Factor in Care, and Offer Fixes

    July 5, 2023

    Saying that structural racism permeates more clinical situations than hospitalists are typically aware of, a panel of speakers at SHM Converge in March offered a framework that physicians can use to...

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    Our SHM Village

    June 1, 2023

    I’ve wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember. I wasn’t sure how to get there, and as an inquisitive child, I had a lot of questions. “Is it hard to be a doctor?” “How much is...

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    SIG Spotlight: Global Hospital Medicine

    May 1, 2023

    All of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIG) look to solve issues, but some are more challenging in scope than others. Those focused on the spread of interdisciplinary rounding, or the improvement...

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    Chapter Spotlight: North Florida

    May 1, 2023

    Matthew Calestino, MD, FACP, SFHM,—along with Drs. Handel Desa and Calixto Zaldivar—helped found the North Florida chapter of SHM in 2018 with an eye toward building a cohesive network of...

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    Things to Do in Austin

    February 1, 2023

    Austin, Texas is not only the Live Music Capital of the World but also home to SHM Converge 2023, March 26-29 at the Austin Convention Center. Plan your conference experience and take advantage of...