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In the Literature
July 2, 2005
Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication Errors; Risk Stratification for In-hospital Mortality in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure: Classification and Regression Tree Analysis; and Risk of Endocarditis among Patients with Prosthetic Valves and Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia
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The Template Progress Note: a Timesaving Innovation
July 2, 2005
Documentation in the form of the daily progress note is an important and cumbersome detail in the life of a hospitalist. Recognizing this, we saw an opportunity for improvement in this process and began a creative endeavor to rework the progress note.
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Transforming Care at the Bedside
July 2, 2005
“Culture trumps strategy every time” As hospitalists attempt to improve hospital care delivery, they strive to develop strategies for successful implementation of new guidelines, order sets, and alteration of utilization patterns.
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Time Management and the Hospitalist
July 2, 2005
Hospital medicine groups are becoming an integral part of healthcare delivery in the US. Since the term hospitalist was coined in 1996 by Robert Wachter, the U.S. has witnessed an amazing growth and development of inpatient programs.
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Patient Satisfaction: the Hospitalist’s Role
July 1, 2005
Introduction Patient satisfaction is a highly desirable outcome of clinical care in the hospital and may even be an element of health status itself (1). A patient’s expression of satisfaction or dissatisfaction is a judgment on the quality of hospital care in all of its aspects.
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Feeling a Little Blue
July 1, 2005
Best of 2005 Annual Meeting Clinical Vignette Competition
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Effects of Hospitalists on Outcomes and Costs in a Multicenter Trial of Academic Hospitalists
July 1, 2005
Best of 2005 Annual Meeting Research Competition
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Observation and Discharge Codes
July 1, 2005
1. When should the observation code be used? Do the provider and facility need to use the same codes in order to be reimbursed for observation?
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“Medical Terrorism” or Best Interests?:
July 1, 2005
What Terri Schiavo Taught Us about the Persistent Vegetative State
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Physician Pay-for-Performance Comes to the Hospital
July 1, 2005
In January 2004, the Mercy Inpatient Medicine Service embarked on a quality-based incentive program, or “pay-for-performance.” This was spurred on by Blue Cross of Massachusetts, which contracted with all hospitals in the state to receive a substantial financial bonus for agreed-upon qua