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Forum focuses on forging Q.I. connections
May 3, 2017
Scrounging for information that could help her with quality improvement (Q.I.) projects, Charmaine Lewis, MD, MPH, the quality director with New Hanover Hospitalists in Wilmington, N.C., said she finds herself reviewing posters at the Annual Meeting and squinting at the images to see whether the...
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Proper UTI diagnosis, treatment relies on cautious approach
May 3, 2017
LAS VEGAS – Prudent use of catheters, cultures, and antibiotics are three keys to proper urinary tract diagnosis and management.
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Hospitalists offer tips on QI projects
May 3, 2017
Anjala Tess, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, asked the audience how many of them had done a quality improvement project that had failed. It was not a time to be bashful: Almost half the hospitalists ...
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Work-life balance is not a ‘thing’ but alignment is
May 3, 2017
We are destined to fail at achieving work-life balance because it does not exist, nor has it ever existed, according to an expert on how people experience time.
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VIDEO: SHM seeks sites to test pediatric transition tool
May 3, 2017
Transitioning pediatric cases from the hospital to the home or community care setting can be tricky. SHM has designed a set of protocols to help,
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Workshop to help hospitalists with patient flow
May 3, 2017
Thursday at HM17, a panel of experts will lead small workshops of audience members on how to put the “go” back in the flow.
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Systems engineering in the hospital
May 3, 2017
Systems-engineering expert James Benneyan, PhD, doesn’t want hospitalists to look at poorly working processes in their institutions and think, “I should try to tweak this process to improve it.” Instead, he wants them to walk out of his HM17 session at 8 a.m. Thursday – a...
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Diabetes specialist to offer disease management tips
May 3, 2017
An endocrinologist will walk the audience through four major points on caring for diabetes patients in a talk to be given Thursday at HM17.
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Culture change necessary to weed out health care overuse
May 3, 2017
Chris Moriates, MD, assistant dean for healthcare value and associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, drew insight from writer David Foster Wallace on Tuesday afternoon as he discussed overuse in hospital care.He cited a story by Wallace: Two young...
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On Tap Wednesday
May 3, 2017
SHM Awards of Excellence and a keynote speech on the transformation of health care take center stage.
