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Let’s Get Physical: Exam Maneuvers that Can Improve Your Clinical Judgment
July 1, 2024
In this era where point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) may make the stethoscope obsolete, Dr. Daniel D. Dressler, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, started his...
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Kill the Mortality—Building Successful Inpatient Mortality Reduction Programs in Academic and Rural Health Systems
July 1, 2024
The session began with a clear statement of its objectives, focusing on how quality programs view mortality, the methodology behind it, approaches to reducing mortality, and the impact hospitalists...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2023
July 1, 2024
The year 2023 brought us waves of advances in technology, increasing vaccine hesitancy, an ongoing behavioral health crisis, and civil unrest overseas which continues to echo throughout the...
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Pneumonia: Updates, Best Practices, and Controversies
July 1, 2024
In this clinically focused session, Dr. Joanna M Bonsall, associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine and hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, discussed portions of the...
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Common Inpatient Cognitive Errors in Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning: Practical Applications for the Hospitalist
July 1, 2024
Everyone has cognitive biases that can lead to errors in diagnosis and have a profound impact on patient management decisions. In this thought-provoking session, Dr. Daniel Restrepo, a hospitalist...
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Pediatric Medical Overuse: Current Ways to Reduce Unnecessary Harm
July 1, 2024
“Everything we do as physicians has downstream consequences and cost,” said Dr. Nathan Money, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, as he and Dr. Danni...
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Update on Clinical Guidelines
July 1, 2024
In a packed room, Dr. O’Leary, chief of the division of hospital medicine, associate chair for quality in the department of medicine, and vice president of quality for Northwestern Memorial...
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Coding Corner: Billing by Time
June 3, 2024
A 66-year-old man with a history of hypertension was admitted to the hospital with chest pain and shortness of breath. He was found to have an acute pulmonary embolism on CT pulmonary angiography...
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What is the Best Initial Management of a Pressure Injury?
June 3, 2024
Case A 74-year-old frail man with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease is admitted for severe community-acquired pneumonia. On hospital day four, the nurse reports a new...
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Coding Corner: Dazed and Confused
May 1, 2024
An 84-year-old woman with a history of dementia was admitted for worsening confusion over the last two days. Her initial workup in the emergency department is unremarkable including a normal...