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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.

  • News

    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

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    When Introducing Innovations, Context Matters

    April 23, 2016

    Are we overlooking factors that could help bring about necessary changes to the healthcare industry? Elliott S.

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    Policy Changes Hospitalists May See in 2016

    November 4, 2015

    The year 2015 brought the repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) and new rules for advanced care planning reimbursement.