Pediatrics

Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2014 Conference Draws Record-Setting Crowd

More than 800 hospitalists gather to hear from CMS’ Patrick Conway, healthcare system CEOs, experts in pediatric hospital medicine

Strategies to define, develop, assess a comprehensive pediatric competency program

Your hospital should have clear policies and procedures, as well as ongoing training

Hospitalists beware patient “dumping,” care fragmentation, and practicing beyond your scope of practice

Understandings about the concepts and process of negotiation can lead to successful negotiations

Medicare CMO Pat Conway explains to packed crowd that CMS' Quality Strategy goals align well with ongoing pediatric hospital medicine efforts

The classic example of over-diagnosis in pediatrics is asymptomatic urinary screening for neuroblastomas, where studies showed an increase in...

Fundamentals of a program will lead to success for advanced programs and distributed networks

Reduced rates for PHM14 in effect until May 16

Well-designed dashboard, with shared information, can effect change at individual hospitals, health networks