Quality
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Crossing the personal quality chasm: QI enthusiast to QI leader
This new series highlights the professional pathways of quality improvement leaders.
Quality
Battling biases with the 5 Rs of cultural humility
The Cultural Humility Work Group set out to develop a simple, universal framework to provide a foundation for strengthening communication skills...
From the Society
SHM receives Eisenberg Award as part of I-PASS Study Group
The Society of Hospital Medicine is part of a patient safety research group that received the prestigious 2016 John M. Eisenberg Award for...
Practice Management
How’s your postacute network doing?
Hospitalists should lead the discussion with patients on postacute facility selection as it relates to which facilities are in the network and why...
Quality
QI enthusiast turns QI leader
Quality improvement success starts with curiosity, builds with connection.
Quality
Consider apps for better patient health
Patient-facing apps have potential to help high-need, high-cost populations, but technology also poses risks.
Quality
Hospitalists seek tools for more efficient admissions
HM16 abstract explains how Lean/Six Sigma methods might streamline admissions.
Quality
Enlisting social networks for better health outcomes
Commentary encourages engaging patients’ friends, family to assist in health care optimization.
Quality
Create hospitalist-patient partnerships for safety and quality
Study reports sharing tool strengthens relationships, improve safety.
Quality
Sneak Peek: Journal of Hospital Medicine
The impact of bedside interdisciplinary rounds on LOS, complications.