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Hospitalists’ Role in PQRS, Pay for Performance Gets Boost
November 1, 2013
SHM effort supports adding inpatient codes to Physician Quality Reporting System to help hospitalists participate in Value-Based Payment Modifier program
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Two Hospitalist Groups Join SHM’s Hospital Medicine Exchange
November 1, 2013
Family medicine and post-acute hospitalists have signed on to participate in the online community
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Submit Your HM14 Scientific Abstracts Soon
November 1, 2013
Deadline for submissions to SHM's Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes poster and oral competition is December 1
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Concern about Copper’s Effectiveness in Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections
November 1, 2013
Despite its antimicrobial properties, copper plating should be done with foresight, caution
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Four Recommendations to Help Hospitalists Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
November 1, 2013
How to prevent infections, track their causes, and identify risk factors
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Hospitalists Poised to Prevent, Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens
November 1, 2013
CDC report is call to action against dangerous bugs, including Clostridium difficile, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
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Culture Shift Required to Defeat Defensive Medicine
November 1, 2013
Hospitalists should stop ordering tests that lead to unnecessary hospital costs, threaten patient safety for the sake of medical liability
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Data Mining Expert Explains Role Performance Tools Will Play in Future
October 1, 2013
Paul Roscoe, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Advisory Board Company, discusses the important role data mining tools like CRIMSON will play in the future.
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Learn How Best To Avoid Some of Data Mining’s Potential Pitfalls
October 1, 2013
Secure information collection, easy-to-understand analysis, and long-term commitment are a good start
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The Why and How Data Mining Is Applicable to Hospital Medicine
October 1, 2013
Steven Deitelzweig, MD, SFHM, system chairman for hospital medicine and medical director of regional business development at Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, discusses how data mining is applicable to hospitalist practice.
