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Top 10 Articles of PHM Literature, 2024
November 1, 2024
Every year at the Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) conference, the top 10 publications from the PHM literature are selected and presented. This year, we aimed to cover a variety of domains including...
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Updates in Pediatric Sepsis
August 1, 2024
An 8-year-old girl presents with five days of worsening cough. She has a temperature of 38.6 °C, a respiratory rate of 38, a blood pressure of 85/45, and a heart rate of 120. Pulse oximetry reveals...
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Opioid Use Disorders in Adolescents
July 1, 2024
Dr. Trope, a pediatric hospitalist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., and an affiliated clinical instructor at the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University...
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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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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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New ACGME Peds Program Requirements Present Challenges and Opportunities
May 1, 2024
Although updates to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program requirements for pediatric graduate medical education will present financial challenges to some hospitals...
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Pediatric Hospitalists as Physician Advisors Managing Utilization and Denials for Health Systems
April 1, 2024
The physician advisor role has been evolving in adult medicine for many years. Hospitalists are well suited for this role given their broad knowledge base regarding health care systems and their...
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Questions Remain About Nirsevimab’s Impact
November 16, 2023
The new monoclonal antibody nirsevimab may radically change incidence and outcomes for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in young pediatric patients, especially when combined with the...
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Lessons for All Hospitalists from PHM 2023
November 1, 2023
Dr. Kumar In August 2023, the Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) community celebrated 20 years of hosting the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference. The milestone was marked by highlighting the...
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Next-generation Web-based Tools for Clinical Teachers
November 1, 2023
Dr. Fish Presenters: Cody Clary, MD, and Emily Hopkins, MD In this impactful PHM 2023 session, Drs. Clary and Hopkins introduced web-based resources that they’ve used as effective teaching...