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What Hospitalists Should Know About ICE Visits
April 18, 2025
In the course of a hectic day with a huge patient load, the last thing a hospitalist might expect to handle is a visit from immigration officials demanding access to a patient the federal government...
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Language Discordance Increases Risk of Hospital Readmissions
April 1, 2025
Clinical question: Does language discordance increase hospital readmissions or unplanned emergency department (ED) visits? Background: Studies have shown that language discordance impacts...
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Moderate IV Fluid Resuscitation is the Goldilocks of Sepsis Mortality in ICU Patients
April 1, 2025
Clinical question: In patients presenting to the intensive care unit (ICU) for sepsis, which intravenous (IV) fluid resuscitation strategy (restrictive, liberal, or moderate) is optimal for lower...
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5 Best Practices and Resources for Interhospital Transfers
April 1, 2025
Transfer of patients between hospitals has long been a part of hospitalist life, and most hospitalists can recall any number of challenging situations. Driven by a desire to improve these situations...
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Implementing and Evaluating a DBN Initiative in a Large Tertiary Care Urban Hospital
January 1, 2025
Clinical question: What is the impact of implementing discharge before noon (DBN) initiatives on discharge time and other factors such as length of stay (LOS), 30-day readmission, and ED boarding...
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Global Hospital Medicine
January 1, 2025
Dr. Ajala worked at the Tibetan School of Medicine in Dharamsala, India, where she shadowed the Dalai Lama’s personal physician How do U.S. hospitalists find their way into international...
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Growing Pains: How to Successfully Navigate Inpatient Pediatric-to-Adult Care Transition
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap In this interactive workshop, the presenters, Ruchi Doshi, MD, Colby Feeney, MD, Kelly Grannan, MD, Christy Mulligan, MD, Rachel Peterson, MD, and Jesse Rhodes, MD, (who were...
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“Is There a Doctor in the House?” Responding to Medical Emergencies Outside of the Hospital
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Sesson Recap For hospitalists who are accustomed to caring for sick patients, encountering emergencies outside of the hospital is far beyond our comfort zones. To quell anxieties and...
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Anchors Away! Operationalizing the Diagnostic Timeout to Overcome Cognitive Bias
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap This session began with a discussion of a patient presentation pediatric hospitalists are very familiar with—a toddler with vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain most...
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Diagnostic Errors in Patients who Died in the Hospital or were Transferred to an ICU
November 1, 2024
Dr. Huang Clinical question: How often do diagnostic errors occur among hospitalized patients who die or are transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU), and how often do diagnostic errors...