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How Having a Medical Writer on Staff Can Help Your Team
August 1, 2023
Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall: Hospitalists face numerous demands, and those in academic medicine are also expected to write and publish their work in peer-reviewed journals, present at conferences,...
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Improving Communications Between ED and Hospitalist Physicians, Viewpoints from Both Perspectives
July 5, 2023
Dr. Michael and Dr. Andrew Pfeffer are brothers who each presented a side of the emergency department(ED)/hospitalist points of conflict. They set the scope of the talk with data from 2020 that there...
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High-Value Care/Things We Do For No Reason
July 5, 2023
In this impactful session, Dr. Lee defined value as the sum of quality of care, equity, patient outcome, and experience divided by costs of care and nonfinancial risks and harms. High-value care...
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Complying with the MATE Act
June 13, 2023
The Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act is part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, of 2023, which takes effect June 2023. The MATE Act requires training for Drug Enforcement...
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Becoming a Well-being Advocate
May 1, 2023
By now, burnout and its related toll on clinicians nationwide are recognized as a pressing crisis. While burnout among U.S. health care practitioners isn’t new, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated...
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Lessons in Redeployment from Adult Hospitalists
May 1, 2023
Diverse mid-adult nurses, mature adult hospital administrators, and senior adult doctors are standing around a table in a hospital board room. They are reviewing spreadsheets and charts containing...
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Reducing Mental Health Care Barriers for Hospitalists
May 1, 2023
Clinical vignette MB is a 36-year-old woman who completed her residency three years ago. She has practiced as a hospitalist at a community hospital since that time. Throughout her time in medical...
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The 7 Deadly Sins for LOS
April 3, 2023
Dr. Soares Hospitalization is an essential resource for the treatment of many patients, but are we doing it in the safest and most efficient way? Achieving effective hospitalizations with a...
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Bright Spots in the Future of Hospital Medicine
March 1, 2023
As Americans start to rediscover their place in a (largely) post-pandemic world, hospitalists across the country are resuming and recommitting to a variety of extracurricular roles and...
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FAST Program Implementation Guide Success
February 1, 2023
Jefferson Antithrombotic Therapy Team. Front row L to R: Photi Galanis, MD, Julia Westfield, Heather Yenser, CRNP. Back row L to R: Lynda Thomson, PharmD, Dina Orapallo, CRNP, Geno Merli, MD, Tony...