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Chapter Spotlight: Central Ohio
March 2, 2026
For Rashmi Ganith, MD, FACP, SFHM, president of SHM’s Central Ohio chapter, involvement started as a wellness campaign. Dr. Ganith See, Dr. Ganith is the assistant director of wellness of...
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Educational Strategies for Clinical Supervision of AI Use
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: What are strategies that can equip medical educators and learners to engage critically with artificial intelligence (AI)? BACKGROUND: AI has the capacity to fundamentally alter...
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Influenza Vaccination Improves All-Cause Mortality and Rates of Readmission for Patients Admitted with Acute HF
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: Does influenza vaccination prior to hospital discharge improve a cause mortality and rates of readmission for patients admitted with acute heart failure (HF)? BACKGROUND:...
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Virtual Hybrid H@H Model Offers Comparable Safety, More Comfort
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: Is a hybrid hospital at home program as safe as traditional inpatient care? BACKGROUND: Hospital at home (H@H) programs are expanding in the U.S. in an effort to ease hospital...
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Limited Access to Pre-Dialysis Care Associated with Lower Rates of Usable AV Dialysis Access at Dialysis Initiation for Hispanic Patients
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: Is there a relationship between access to pre-dialysis nephrology care and the presence of usable arteriovenous (AV) access at dialysis initiation among Hispanic...
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Early TAVR Improved Outcomes for Elderly Patients with Asymptomatic Severe AS
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: In patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis (AS) and preserved ejection fraction (EF), will early-intervention transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), compared to...
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Celebrating National Hospitalist Day: Four Paths, One Purpose
March 2, 2026
National Hospitalist Day celebrates hospitalists’ contributions to health care on the first Thursday of March. Founded by SHM in 2018, the day will be commemorated on March 5 this year. In honor...
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What Is the “Source of Truth” for Hospitalists?
March 2, 2026
When he was a resident, Thejaswi Poonacha, MD, a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, set out to look at the clinical practice guidelines of the National...
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Impact of Cardiopulmonary POCUS on Hospital LOS in Patients with Undifferentiated Dyspnea
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: Is cardiopulmonary point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) associated with reduced hospital lengths of stay (LOS) in patients with undifferentiated dyspnea? BACKGROUND: POCUS has...
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities Limit Access to PCI for STEMI Patients
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: At which point(s) of the hospital care process are racial and ethnic disparities most pronounced for patients presenting with ST-segment myocardial infarction (STEMI), where...