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LISTEN NOW! Two Additional Choosing Wisely Recommendations from Specialty Societies
June 1, 2014
Linda Cox, MD, president of American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, and Rahul Shah, MD, FACS, FAAP, co-chair of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation’s Patient Safety Quality Improvement Committee, offer recommendations for hospitalists
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LISTEN NOW! UC San Francisco’s Michelle Mourad Encourages Fellow Hospitalists To Get Involved in Quality Projects
May 5, 2014
Michelle Mourad, MD, director of quality and safety at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, talks about how to get involved in quality projects and how to push others to get involved, too
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Society of Hospital Medicine’s Hospitalist Program Peak Performance Sets Foundation for Improvement
May 2, 2014
Designed to reduce readmission rates in Illinois hospitals, HP3 program promotes better hospital medicine group performance through quality initiatives, project management techniques
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Registration for ASHP’s Medication Safety Collaborative Still Open
May 2, 2014
SHM members can register for specialty meeting held within American Society of Health-System Pharmacist’s conference starting May 31 in Las Vegas
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Bill to Clarify Three-Midnight Rule for Medicare Patients Gains Support from Congress, Hospitalists
May 1, 2014
H.R. 1179 would eliminate confusion around hospital admission requirements to cover skilled nursing care; relieve financial burden for Medicare patients, families
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State of the Art
May 1, 2014
A conversation about team-based, unit-focused care with Emory hospitalist Jason Stein, MD, SFHM
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Quality Improvement, Patient Safety Top Hospitalists’ Priority Lists at HM14
May 1, 2014
Pre-courses, breakout sessions, posters at Society of Hospital Medicine's annual meeting focus on identifying, implementing successful QI projects
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HM14 Keynote Speakers Encourage Hospitalists to Deliver High-Quality, Low-Cost Patient Care
May 1, 2014
Hospital medicine leaders at Society of Hospital Medicine’s annual meeting spell out specialty's top goals
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How Hospitalists Can Improve Efficiency on Inpatient Wards
May 1, 2014
Organized pre-rounding sessions; a prioritized order of patient rounds; succinct, timely discharge documentation can help facilitate patient throughput
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Copper Safe, Effective in Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections
April 2, 2014
A reader responds to concerns around proposed use of copper touch surfaces in hospitals
