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Project improves noninvasive IUC alternatives
A UC San Diego medical student’s quality improvement project proves successful.
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Different perspectives on the care delivery process
Different hospital services had divergent opinions about the challenges of care delivery during the inpatient, discharge, and outpatient follow up...
Career
Swarm and suspicion leadership
Leaders influence the tone and tenor of their own group’s interactions as well as interactions between different working groups.
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Ensuring a smooth data collection process
A quality improvement project provides a med student with an excellent opportunity to improve his clinical skills.
Career
Hospitalist movers and shakers – Nov. 2017
Take note of some recent career transitions in the hospital medicine community.
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Physicians do not trust bone biopsy culture data
Summer research could help change the way physicians manage patients with osteomyelitis.
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Higher hospital mortality in pediatric emergency transfer patients
Children who have had an emergency transfer event spend a longer time in the ICU and in the hospital.
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Understanding patient process flow
A medical student’s project involves a series of initiatives to better understand the process flow of a patient.
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Coordinating data collection in a QI project
Conducting a successful quality improvement project requires one to be forward-looking.
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Understanding people is complex, yet essential for effective leadership
You have to start somewhere, said veteran SHM member Jeffrey Wiese, MD, FACP, MHM, and you have to see the entry level years as investing in...