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Increasing inpatient attending supervision does not decrease medical errors
January 23, 2019
What is the effect of increasing attending physician supervision on a resident inpatient team for both patient safety and education?
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How can I improve opioid safety at my hospital?
January 3, 2019
Quality improvement is essential.
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How to assess an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
January 2, 2019
Can ASPs quantify their impact on antibiotic use without using an EMR or requiring IT support?
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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.
