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Small Bowel Block in Elderly Merits Full Hospitalization
July 28, 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The "vast majority" of elderly patients admitted with small bowel obstruction (SBO) are hospitalized for more than two days, and the diagnosis alone should allow appropriate Medicare coverage, according to a new study. In a paper online July 1 in Annals o
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LISTEN NOW: Hospitalist, Edwin Lopez, PA-C, on Post-Acute Care in the U.S. Health System
July 7, 2015
Edwin Lopez, PA-C, of St. Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw, Wash., offers his views on post-acute care in the U.S.
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Hospital Medicine’s Old Practices Become New Again
July 6, 2015
The musty collections of National Geographic magazines once found in so many basements are largely gone. Replacing them are dusty sets of the Advisory Board binders and booklets found in hospital administration offices around the country.
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ICD-10 Medical Coding System Likely to Improve Documentation, Reimbursement
July 6, 2015
ICD-10 is the system that will replace ICD-9 for all parties covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). ICD-10 contains a code set used for inpatient procedural reporting and a code set used for diagnosis reporting.
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Post-Acute Patient Care Offers Opportunities for Non-Physicians
July 6, 2015
Setting allows nurse practitioners, physician assistants to play key clinical, administrative roles
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11 Things Gastroenterologists Think Hospitalists Need to Know
July 6, 2015
[caption id="attachment_10268" align="alignright" width="275"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] So many symptoms that are staples of gastroenterology—chest pain, nausea, diarrhea—are mainstay causes for hospitalization that it might be worth fine-tuning how well you handle patients with g
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LISTEN NOW: Hospitalist Manya Gupta on Choosing Wisely
July 2, 2015
Excerpt of our interviews with Choosing Wisely, hospitalist Manya Gupta, MD, an assistant professor in the department of internal medicine of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, discusses an example of a Choosing Wisely program. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads
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LISTEN NOW: Hospitalist Lisa Shieh on Choosing Wisely
July 2, 2015
Excerpt of our interviews with Choosing Wisely, Lisa Shieh, MD, PhD, of Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses an example of a Choosing Wisely program. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Shieh_ChoosingWisely2015_FINAL_051015_LongVersion.mp3"][/audio]
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LISTEN NOW: Gregory Seymann, MD, on Choosing Wisely
July 2, 2015
Gregory Seymann, MD, discusses a Choosing Wisely program. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Seymann_ChoosingWisely2015_FINAL_051215_long.mp3"][/audio]
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New Tool Improves Harm Detection for Pediatric Inpatients
June 18, 2015
The newly developed Pediatric All-Cause Harm Measurement Tool (PACHMT) improved detection of harms in pediatric inpatients in a recent pilot study. Using the tool, researchers found a rate of 40 harms per 100 patients admitted, and at least one harm in nearly a quarter of the children in the stud
