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Ensuring a smooth data collection process
A quality improvement project provides a med student with an excellent opportunity to improve his clinical skills.
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Delving into the details
Project reveals the fundamental difficulty of clinical decision-making in the first 24 hours of a patient’s admission.
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Inclusion valued by advanced practice providers
Nurse practitioners should learn to say “yes” to career opportunities as they arise, says hospital medicine nurse practitioner Lorraine Britting...
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Physicians do not trust bone biopsy culture data
Summer research could help change the way physicians manage patients with osteomyelitis.
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Here’s what’s trending at SHM – Nov. 2017
Get the latest news about upcoming events, new programs, and SHM initiatives.
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Higher hospital mortality in pediatric emergency transfer patients
Children who have had an emergency transfer event spend a longer time in the ICU and in the hospital.
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Understanding patient process flow
A medical student’s project involves a series of initiatives to better understand the process flow of a patient.
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Patient handoffs and research methods
One of the benefits of asking open-ended questions is the ability to glean a large amount of information.
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Coordinating data collection in a QI project
Conducting a successful quality improvement project requires one to be forward-looking.
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Identifying the right database
The potential for finding the answers to many patient-care questions probably lies in the EMR data you already have.