Quality
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Will artificial intelligence make us better doctors?
While the benefits of technology in health care are often oversold, artificial intelligence will in time play a large role alongside physicians....
Quality
A case for building our leadership skills
It’s interesting that we spent so much time focusing on biochemical pathways and next to none on leadership skills.
Quality
Family reports provide additional information regarding adverse events
Clinical Question: Do family reports of adverse events improve incident detection, compared with clinician reports and hospital...
Practice Management
Is the doctor in?
A recent increase in programs that provide telehospitalists indicates continued growth in coming years.
Quality
VIDEO: Attaining the tools to start your own quality improvement project
HM17 session on QI methodologies lays the foundation for hospitalist-led projects.
HM17
Hospitalists offer tips on QI projects
Anjala Tess, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston,...
Quality
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...