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WATCH: Mentoring in Hospital Medicine
May 13, 2016
Drs. Vineet Arora and Hyung "Harry" Cho offer insight on how mentorship—giving, and receiving—is an essential part of all stages of an hospitalist career, in academic or community-based HM.
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Patients Who Don’t Speak English are Likely to Return to the Emergency Room
May 13, 2016
(Reuters Health) - Patients in the emergency room who don't speak English well are slightly more likely to return within days, suggesting their care the first time was not as good as it could have been, researchers say. In a study in one New York hospital, about 4 percent of English speakers made
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The Treatment of Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is best in Higher-Volume Hospitals
May 12, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Higher-volume hospitals do better in treatment of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but more efforts are needed to direct patients to these centers, according to New York-based researchers. In an April 27 online paper in JAMA Cardiology, they note that rec
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Report Shows Implanted Cardioveter-defibrillators Carries High Risk
May 11, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) carry a high risk of long-term complications, especially for younger patients, women, and blacks, researchers report. Early implantation-related risks such as device malfunction are well known, but longer-term risks -- espec
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Barriers to Achieving High Reliability
May 10, 2016
The conceptual models being used in healthcare’s efforts to achieve high reliability may have weaknesses, according to Marc T. Edwards, MD, MBA, author of “An Organizational Learning Framework for Patient Safety,” published in the American Journal of Medical Quality.
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Is Email an Endangered Species?
May 10, 2016
Forty-five years ago, an engineer in Boston sent an electronic message between two computers some 10 feet apart.
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Study Shows Statins lower the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
May 10, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Lipid-lowering therapy, consisting almost entirely of statins, substantially lowered the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cardiovascular death in individuals with type 1 diabetes without a history of CVD, according to a new study. Among more than 24,000 Swedish
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Benefits of Hospital-Wide Mortality Reviews
May 9, 2016
Death is a subject everyone cares about—but we could talk about it more, especially in hospitals, where a lot of people die.
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SHM Seats Its First Non-Physician Board Member
May 9, 2016
New Society of Hospital Medicine board member Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM, isn’t on the board because she’s a nurse practitioner (NP).
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Helicobacter Pylori Treatment is Associated with a Short-term Increase in the Risk of Neuropsychiatic Events
May 9, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Helicobacter pylori treatment containing clarithromycin is associated with a short-term increase in the risk of neuropsychiatric events, according to a study from Hong Kong. Neuropsychiatric events following clarithromycin therapy have been reported previously, but no
