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Pediatric Hospitalists as Physician Advisors Managing Utilization and Denials for Health Systems
April 1, 2024
The physician advisor role has been evolving in adult medicine for many years. Hospitalists are well suited for this role given their broad knowledge base regarding health care systems and their...
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Code Status Discussions; Difficult but Necessary
April 1, 2024
I thought it was just where I practiced, but it turns out that, in the medical field, we’re really bad about having code discussions, which is a significant issue. When some of my patients revealed...
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Which Non-opioid Medications are Best for Symptom Management in OWS?
April 1, 2024
Case A 30-year-old woman with a history of opioid use disorder (OUD) presents to the hospital with a fever and is found to have Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Soon after admission, she developed...
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Interruptions: Bad for Hospitalists and Their Patients
April 1, 2024
More than 10 years ago this magazine published an article by Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM, a pioneer of hospital medicine and co-founder of the Society of Hospital Medicine, warning of the hazards of...
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Getting Another Degree While Working… Or Not?
March 12, 2024
The monthly(-ish) #JHMChat on X, formerly Twitter, is a time to discuss interesting articles in the Journal of Hospital Medicine , meet new people, and learn from each other. Our chat this past...
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A Clinician’s Romance with Uncertainty
March 4, 2024
It all started as a fling; harmless, unburdened. My tryst with uncertainty found its roots in those educational conferences where every case started as a mystery and was resolved with a definitive...
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Time to Rethink AF Treatment: Prolonged Benefits of Cryoballoon Ablation
March 1, 2024
Clinical question: Does initial therapy with catheter cryoballoon ablation reduce progression to persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with symptomatic, paroxysmal AF when compared to...
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Longer-term Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 in the REMAP-CAP Trial
March 1, 2024
Clinical question: What is the longer-term (180-day) mortality effect of common therapies on critically ill patients with COVID-19? Background: Most randomized clinical trials for patients with...
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Main Causes of Costly Inappropriate Hospital Admissions are Premature Admission and the Potential for Outpatient Management
March 1, 2024
Clinical question: How prevalent and costly are inappropriate hospital admissions and are patients’ intrinsic risk factors (IRFs) or comorbidities associated with inappropriate hospital...
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Use of Amiodarone with Apixaban or Rivaroxaban Increases Risk for Bleeding-related Hospitalizations
March 1, 2024
Clinical question: Does the use of amiodarone in patients with atrial fibrillation increase the risk for bleeding-related hospitalizations when used with apixaban or rivaroxaban? Background:...