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Performance Disconnect: Measures Don’t Improve Hospitals’ Readmissions Experience
December 13, 2012
Two new studies find little improvement between quality measures, 30-day readmissions
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Report Outlines Ways Hospital Medicine Can Redefine Healthcare Delivery
December 2, 2012
Recommendations from the Institute of Medicine include reforming payment, adopting digital infrastructure, and improving continuity of care
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Soaring Healthcare Expenses Draw Attention to Price Transparency As Cost Control
December 2, 2012
Physicians encouraged to consider impact of diagnostic and treatment decisions to help cut costs
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iPad Rollout at UC-Irvine Medical Center Prompts Security Measures
December 2, 2012
Issuing iPads containing medical curriculum to students and resident physicians leads officials at the University of California's Irvine Medical Center to issue guidelines for monitoring technology use
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Guidelines Help Hospitalists Manage Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
December 2, 2012
Mount Sinai Medical Center expert outlines ACS treatment guidelines, new advances, and performance measures at the seventh annual Mid-Atlantic Hospital Medicine Symposium last October in New York City
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The Numerators: Treating Noncompliant, Medically Complicated Hospital Patients
December 2, 2012
Why hospitalists need to focus on their patients more
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Recommendations for Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy
December 2, 2012
In February, the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) published new practice guidelines for medical patients regarding antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke that are the result of new clinical trial data and a review of previous studies
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Opinion
John Nelson: Peformance Key to Federal Value-Based Payment Modifier Plan
December 2, 2012
What the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' new pay-for-performance program means to hospitalists
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Consider Patient Safety, Outcomes Risk before Prescribing Off-Label Drugs
December 2, 2012
Once a drug has been approved for use, if, in your clinical judgment there are other indications for which it could be beneficial, then you are well within your rights to prescribe it
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Defining a Safe Workload for Pediatric Hospitalists
December 2, 2012
The truth about hospitalists' sleep hygiene, work schedules, and clinical impact
