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Bring Schwartz Rounds to your hospital
December 7, 2018
Compassionate care rounds are a national initiative to help foster empathy in the health care setting.
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Giving hospitalists a larger clinical footprint
December 4, 2018
Hospitalists do not do SNF handoffs in the same manner as ICUs, but it’s time to change.
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Patient-centered primed communication and goals-of-care discussions
November 14, 2018
Can primed communication increase the frequency of goals-of-care conversations in the outpatient setting?
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Opiate-prescribing standard decreases opiate use in hospitalized patients
November 13, 2018
Can an opiate-prescribing standard that favors oral and subcutaneous over intravenous administration reduce exposure to intravenous opiates for hospitalized adults?
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Focus on patient experience to cut readmission rates
November 2, 2018
Key issues might not be captured in standard postdischarge surveys.
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Launching a surgical comanagement project
October 29, 2018
Collaborating in surgical comanagement improves the satisfaction of the hospitalists and surgeons involved.
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Paradigm shifts in palliative care
October 12, 2018
Hospitalists must be more keenly tuned in than ever to patients' precise needs.
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Hospital-level care coordination strategies and the patient experience
October 2, 2018
Does patient experience correlate with specific hospital care coordination and transition strategies, and if so, which strategies most strongly correlate with higher patient experience scores?
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Does nurse-physician rounding matter?
September 13, 2018
Improved communication by timely nurse-physician rounding can lead to better outcomes for patients.
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Quality and safety of hospital care from the patient perspective
August 30, 2018
Can patient feedback support health services to measure and improve the quality and safety of patient care in the hospital?
