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Eight things hospitalists need to know about post-acute care
January 20, 2017
Staffing, reimbursement, and patient populations vary widely. Experts suggest training, and opportunities for improvement.
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Female physicians, lower mortality, lower readmissions: A case study
January 20, 2017
Week in, week out for the past 25 years, I have had a front-row seat to the medical practice of a certain female physician: my wife, Heather. We met when we worked together on the wards during...
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Sneak Peek: Journal of Hospital Medicine
January 20, 2017
Background: Frailty, history of dementia (HoD), and acute confusional states (ACS) are common in older patients admitted to hospital. Objective: To study the association of frailty (≥six points in the Clinical Frailty Scale [CFS]), HoD, and ACS with hospital outcomes, controlling for age, gen...
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Have you Googled yourself lately?
January 6, 2017
With a majority of patients relying on physician ratings, hospitalists might consider countermeasures.
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Nonischemic cardiomyopathy does not benefit from prophylactic ICDs
January 5, 2017
Nonischemic cardiomyopathy does not benefit from prophylactic ICDsClinical question: Do prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reduce long-term mortality in patients with symptomatic nonischemic systolic heart failure (NISHF)?[[{"fid":"175130","view_mode":"medstat_image_flus...
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Everything We Say and Do
December 16, 2016
Read the chart, elevate your patients’ confidence.
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6 Tips for Community Hospitalists Initiating QI Projects
September 9, 2016
Large hospitalist groups expect their physicians to contribute to the QI initiatives of the hospitals they staff
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Tips for Improving Early Discharge Rates
May 29, 2016
Discharging patients before noon has many advantages: It creates open beds to accommodate the surge in admissions in the afternoon and helps minimize the bottleneck in system-wide patient flow, says Ragu P.
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Barriers to Achieving High Reliability
May 10, 2016
The conceptual models being used in healthcare’s efforts to achieve high reliability may have weaknesses, according to Marc T. Edwards, MD, MBA, author of “An Organizational Learning Framework for Patient Safety,” published in the American Journal of Medical Quality.
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Video Feedback Can Be a Helpful Tool for QI, Patient Safety
April 30, 2016
Procedures are the most expensive item in healthcare, but tremendous variation remains in quality. “In part that’ s because we have weak systems of peer support and in part because medicine sanctions a physician to do procedures, and then for the next 40 or 50 years, a surgeon can receive no inpu