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POLICY CORNER: Despite significant QI, disparities among poor Americans persist.
Hospitalists and the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
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POLICY CORNER: An inside look at the most pressing policy issues
SHM Earns Patient Safety Organization Status
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How You Can Save Your Hospital a Million Bucks
HM can deliver on quality and patient-satisfaction measures, bonus payments
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Minivan, Major Lesson
HM needs excellent engineers, you
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All Aboard
Hospitalists should jump on transitions-of-care train now to help solve rehospitalization problems
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Stephen Jencks, MD, and hospitalist Brad Sherman, MD, FHM, chat about readmission problems and solutions
With Medicare preparing to curtail reimbursement for 30-day readmissions, hospitalists are on the frontlines of safe and effective transitions of...
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Exception or the Rule? Targeting the Right Patient Populations
It’s one thing to identify the factors associated with higher risk of readmission, and quite another to actively manage those patients
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Infection-prevention professionals, hospital officials suggest steps to simplify and streamline HAI tracking system
Infection-prevention leaders and state hospital association representatives participated in regional meetings sponsored across the country during...
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Market Watch
New generics, dosages, indications, and safety warnings, including information about carbidopa/levodopa and entacapone tablets, as well as...
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The Story of Us
Chapter 1: Overcoming threats to quality healthcare in the face of reform