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Managing Physician Performance in Hospital Medicine
May 1, 2005
Joel Barker describes leadership as “…the ability to take people where they otherwise would not go.” In other words, leadership is about creating change in something that exists today.
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Four Physicians Presented SHM’s 2005 National Awards of Excellence
- Kevin/ross Public Relations;
- Lisa Freeman
May 1, 2005
SHM presented its 2005 national awards of excellence to four hospitalists whose work and research have contributed significantly to hospital medicine and to the betterment of hospital care across America.
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SHM Inducts New Officers at Annual Meeting
- Kevin/ross Public Relations;
- Lisa Freeman
May 1, 2005
Steven Pantilat, MD, assumed the role of SHM’s new president at the 2005 Annual Meeting, along with a slate of other newly elected officers, including: Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, president elect, William Atchley, MD, FACP, treasurer, and Lisa Kettering, MD, FACP, secretary.
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Health Care Will Be Better and You Will Make It Happen
- Larry Wellikson, MD, FACP
March 2, 2005
The vision of a re-engineered hospital with patient-centered care, delivered by a fully empowered team of professionals, which is data driven with clear quality measurements, where better performance is rewarded by better compensation is coming to a hospital near you during your professional career.
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Pediatric in the Literature
March 1, 2005
Parents' Priorities and Satisfaction with Acute Pediatric Care; and Evaluation of a Staff-Only Hospitalist System in a Tertiary Care, Academic Children's Hospital
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Other Literature of Interest
- Brian Harte, MD;
- Christopher Whinney, MD;
- Sanjeev Suri Md
March 1, 2005
1. Dexter PR, Perkins SM, Mahany KS, Jones K, McDonald CJ. Inpatient computer-based standing orders vs. physician reminders to increase influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2004; 292: 2366-71.
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Practice Profile
March 1, 2005
Lehigh Valley Hospitalist Services
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The Quality and Patient Safety Track at the 2005 SHM Annual Meeting
March 1, 2005
Hospital Quality and Patient Safety
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Tackling the Underlying Problems of Failure to Rescue
March 1, 2005
A recent HealthGrades Quality Study titled Patient Safety in American Hospitals (July 2004) highlighted the frequency of patients dying from complications that develop while in hospitals.
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Navigating the Nuances of Consult Coding
- Ccs-P;
- Gail Pfeiffer;
- Jim Pile, MD;
- Rhia
March 1, 2005
Introduction
Hospitalists often have questions related to coding for consultative services and subsequent hospital visits, especially when other specialists are managing the patient “concurrently.” If the hospitalist is practicing in a teaching hospital the guidelines can be yet more con