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News
How to Initiate a VTE Quality Improvement Project
March 3, 2015
While VTE sometimes occurs in spite of the best available prophylaxis, there are many lost opportunities to optimize prevention and reduce VTE risk factors in virtually every hospital.
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News
De-Escalation Training Prepares Hospitalists to Calm Agitated Patients
March 3, 2015
If a patient shows signs of agitation, Aaron Gottesman, MD, SFHM, says the best way to handle it is to stay calm. It may sound simple, but, in the heat of the moment, people tend to become defensive and on guard rather than acting composed and sympathetic.
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Hospitalists Should Lead Training, Preparedness for Hospital Violence Prevention
March 3, 2015
On Jan. 20, a 44-year old surgeon was shot and killed in the middle of the day at one of the country’s top hospitals.
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Opinion
Geographic Rounding of Hospital Nurses Challenges Unit-Based Theory
March 3, 2015
Nurses, of course, have always been assigned by unit—that is, geographically. So it should come as no surprise that searching “unit-based” at the-hospitalist.org returns many articles about assigning hospitalists geographically, but not nurses, partly because few would consider it a new idea.
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News
Little Progress Made Training Hospitalists to Stem Shortage of Intensivists
March 3, 2015
What would the status be for a hospitalist who could train for one year to become a critical care intensivist to address the shortage of intensivists?
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News
Billing for Hospital Admission, Discharge in Same 24-Hour Period
March 3, 2015
Should the admitting physician or the discharge physician bill the CPT code (99234-99236) for a patient who is admitted and discharged in the same 24-hour period? —Charlette Dr.
News
Hospital Violence Hits Home
March 3, 2015
Hospitalists could hardly be faulted for wondering: Am I safe?
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News
Hospitalists Try To Reclaim Lead Role in Bedside Procedures
March 3, 2015
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News
Infectious Diseases Society of America 2014 Practice Guidelines To Diagnose, Manage Skin, Soft Tissue Infections
March 3, 2015
Background Surveillance studies in the U.S.
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News
How Hospitalist Groups Make Time for Leadership
February 2, 2015
Negotiating salaries. Improving patient flow. Increasing patient satisfaction. Reducing readmissions. Championing quality improvement efforts. Planning strategically. Handling schedule issues. Dealing with coverage issues. Working on Ebola preparation.
