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Nonischemic cardiomyopathy does not benefit from prophylactic ICDs
Nonischemic cardiomyopathy does not benefit from prophylactic ICDsClinical question: Do prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs...
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Read the chart, elevate your patients’ confidence.
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A Glimpse at the Future of Hospital Medicine
Hospitalists touch the lives of patients and shape health systems’ practices and health policy on a national and international scale according to...
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Promoting the Health of Healthcare Employees
Provisions in the Affordable Care Act encourage hospitals to work with their communities to improve population health.
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Thinking Outside the DRG Box
Alternative payment models reward post-acute-care value over in-hospital savings
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Strategies for Preventing Patient Falls
Between 700,000 and 1 million people fall each year in U.S. hospitals, and about a third of those result in injuries that add an additional 6.3...
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Helping Patients Quit Smoking
Inpatient hospitalization can be a key time for patients to quit smoking, according to an abstract called “No More Butts: An Automated System for...
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Hospitalists See Benefit from Working with ‘Surgicalists’
The collaboration is widely supported by hospitalists because it brings several advantages, mainly a greater availability of the surgeon for...
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HM 2016: A Year in Review
The top 10 events that impacted the specialty this year
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Hospital factors play key role in readmission risk after surgery
CORONADO, CALIF. – Variation in readmission risk across hospitals following certain surgical procedures is more attributable to hospital factors...