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Verify Your Liability Coverage before Taking that New Job
March 31, 2012
Now is the time to dust off your employment agreement and professional liability insurance policy and review what happen in the event a lawsuit is filed against you after you leave your current employer.
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Nigerian-Born Hospitalist Steers Career Down Path of Administrative Challenges
March 31, 2012
In some ways, Femi Adewunmi, MD, MBA, CPE, SFHM, seemed destined to become a physician.
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Time-based billing allows hospitalists to avoid
March 31, 2012
Utilizing time-based billing principles allows a physician to disregard the “key component” requirements and select a visit level reflective of this effort.
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First Set of CMS Advisors Includes Hospitalists
March 31, 2012
In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) selected 73 professionals as the initial set of advisors for its Innovation Center (http://innovations.cms.gov/). The advisors include 37 physicians, as well as some nurses and health administrators.
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Hospitalists Provide Leadership as Unit Medical Directors
March 31, 2012
A project to formalize “local leadership models”—partnering leadership teams comprising a hospitalist and a nurse manager on each participating unit—at the University of Michigan Health System helped to redefine the role of unit medical director and led to allocating sufficie
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Understanding Physicians’ Attitudes toward Safety Culture
March 31, 2012
Results from a survey to assess physicians’ and medical trainees’ perceptions and attitudes about the culture of patient safety at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center were reported at HM11 in Dallas by Patrick Kneeland, MD, who has since moved to Providenc
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By the Numbers: 8.3%
March 31, 2012
8.3%1 in 12 adults ages 21 and older Discharged from the hospital to the community were readmitted within 30 days, according to the National Institute for Health Care Reform.
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How Should Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis be Treated?
February 29, 2012
Alcoholic hepatitis is a severe form of alcohol-related liver disease associated with significant short-term mortality.
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Guidelines for VTE Prophylaxis in Medical Patient Populations, Including Stroke
February 29, 2012
Observational studies suggest that 50% of patients who develop a VTE in the hospital will do so despite appropriate prophylaxis.
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In the Literature: Physician Reviews of HM-Relevant Research
February 29, 2012
Higher loading dose of clopidogrel in STEMI; early vs. late surgery following hip fracture; beta-blockers in chronic kidney disease; long-term azithromycin in COPD; CT screening for lung cancer; timing of parenteral nutrition in the ICU; intrapleural management of empyema with DNase and t-PA; effect of weekend elective admissions on hospital flow; expectations and outcomes of medical comanagement.