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Choosing Wisely Campaign Initiatives Grounded in Tenets of Hospital Medicine
March 1, 2013
Sponsored by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation, the campaign's mission to encourage better decision-making, improve healthcare quality, and decrease costs were also part of the initial motivation to develop hospital medicine
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Hospital Medicine Leaders Set to Converge for HM13
March 1, 2013
Highlights of the Society of Hospital Medicine's annual meeting include sessions on the Choosing Wisely campaign, health care reform, and patient safety
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Experts Debate Pros and Cons of Seven Days On, Seven Days Off Work Schedule
March 1, 2013
Familiar hospital medicine work model popular with some for its distinct time-off structure, criticized by others as inflexible and financially unstable
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Hospitalwide Reductions in Pediatric Patient Harm are Achievable
March 1, 2013
Quality care initiatives are needed to eliminate preventable harm, improve safety for pediatric inpatients
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Multiple Patient-Safety Events Affect 1 in 1000 Hospitalizations
March 1, 2013
Co-occurring events contributed to longer lengths of stay and higher hospital costs for 30,000 patients in 2004
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Special Interest Groups Target Healthcare Waste
March 1, 2013
New reports from HealthAffairs.org and the Commonwealth Fund point to wasteful spending, avoidable hospital readmissions
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Post-Hospital Syndrome Contributes to Readmission Risk for Elderly
March 1, 2013
Sleep deprivation and other patient stressors in hospitals may hike 30-day readmission rates, experts suggest
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Houston Hospitalists Create Direct-Admit System
March 1, 2013
Computer application streamlines time-consuming hospital admission process for referring physicians and PCPs
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Southern Hospital Medicine Conference Drives Home the Value of Hospitalists
February 2, 2013
Hospital medicine leaders discuss the need to develop standardized processes among clinicians to reduce errors, lower costs of hospitalized patient care
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Fundamentals of Highly Reliable Organizations Could Benefit Hospitalists
February 2, 2013
Hospitalists can have a huge impact on organizational efficacy by being mindful of avoiding on-the-job failures
