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Using data to drive quality improvement projects
April 11, 2018
Attendees will learn how to develop balanced metrics for quality improvement projects, understand distinctions between quality improvement and traditional research projects, and identify how different measures of the same data can tell vastly different stories.
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Video: SHM provides resources and community for practice administrators
April 10, 2018
ORLANDO – In a video interview, Ms. Tiffani Panek discusses the scope of practice management resources available from the Society of Hospital Medicine.
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Tackling gender disparities in hospital medicine
April 10, 2018
ORLANDO – It would take 67 years to reach gender parity in hospital leadership at the current rate of improvement, Elizabeth Harry, MD, said at HM 18.
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MedPAC urges CMS to curb low-value care
April 10, 2018
23%-37% of Medicare beneficiaries received at least one low-value service in 2014, based on analysis of claims data, for an expenditure of $2.4 billion to $6.5 billion, although that was probably an underestimate.
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Neuro updates: Longer stroke window; hold the fresh frozen plasma
April 10, 2018
For ischemic stroke, very good evidence for mechanical thrombectomy, with new data pointing to a prolonged treatment window for some patients.
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RIV awards go to studies of interhospital transfers and ‘virtual hospitalists’
April 10, 2018
Interhospital transfers and “virtual hospitalists” take home awards in the research arm of the HM18 Research, Innovations and Clinical Vignettes.
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Video: The SHM Physicians in Training Committee – increasing the hospitalist pipeline
April 10, 2018
ORLANDO – In a video interview, Brian Kwan, MD, SFHM, discusses the role of the SHM Physicians in Training Committee in expanding the number of hospitalists.
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New developments in critical care and sepsis
April 10, 2018
“There has been a lot of discussion about steroids in sepsis that is potentially practice changing.”
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Antibiotic awareness tops ID agenda
April 10, 2018
Antibiotic resistance is “one of the greatest problems we face.”
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Myriad career options for hospitalists
April 10, 2018
“It’s okay if you don’t know what you want to do, just do what you think is interesting and it’s amazing the things you can end up doing.”