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Hospital Supply Chains
May 2, 2022
The supply chain. Lean manufacturing. Just-in-time economy. Unless you hold a business degree or just love reading the Wall Street Journal, chances are these terms weren’t part of your vocabulary...
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Workforce Issues
April 1, 2022
Silver linings emerge for hospitalists For Elisabeth Souther, MD, chief of hospital medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a rural, academic hospital with almost 400 beds in Lebanon, N.H.,...
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Volunteers—making SHM an educational, scientific, and advocacy powerhouse for 25 years
April 1, 2022
For Ramesh Adhikari, MD, MS, FHM, a hospitalist with Franciscan Alliance in Lafayette, Ind., volunteering for SHM seemed like the right thing to do. “My motivation was to advance the field of...
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A commitment to training physicians and SHM: a perfect match
April 1, 2022
When Daniel Ricotta, MD, SFHM, matriculated to residency in 2011, he didn’t know what hospital medicine was. Now, as chair of SHM’s Physicians in Training committee, it’s his mission to make...
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Effectiveness of an analytics-based intervention for reducing sleep interruption in hospitalized patients
April 1, 2022
Dr. Scaletta Clinical question: Can a clinical-decision-support tool enable physicians to identify hospitalized patients who are stable enough to have their nighttime vital-sign checks...
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Safe to treat mild acute diverticulitis without antibiotics outside the hospital?
April 1, 2022
Dr. Scaletta Clinical question: Can clinicians successfully manage mild acute diverticulitis on an outpatient basis without antibiotics? Background: Incidence of diverticular disease is...
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The evolution of the hospitalist
March 30, 2022
Dr. Ramanathan Dr. Chmelik The term hospitalist was coined in 1996 in a New England Journal of Medicine article written by Dr. Robert Wachter—often considered the father of the field. The need...
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Learn to surf
March 3, 2022
Recently, three hospitalists turned what could have been a webinar focused on venting into something positive and inspirational. Sharmila Dissanaike, MD, FACS, FCCM, a hospitalist and a trauma,...
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Characteristics of hospitalized patients whose substance use increased amid the impacts of COVID-19
March 3, 2022
Nearly 20 million U.S. adults experience a substance use disorder (SUD) annually,1 leading to more than 650 thousand hospital admissions.2 Large-scale crises like the COVID-19 pandemic can...
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It’s time for a change
March 1, 2022
Much has been written about the challenges frontline health care workers have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Long hours, excessive death, and fear for one’s own safety and the welfare of...
