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Practice Profile
July 1, 2005
Milford Hospital Hospitalist Service
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“A Hospitalist Saved My Life”
June 1, 2005
A hospitalized healthcare expert shares her perspective
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Practice Profile
May 1, 2005
Norwalk Hospital
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Medical Student Teaching on a “Non-Teaching” Service
May 1, 2005
The Washington University Hospitalist Experience
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Seven Effective Strategies of Highly Successful Resuscitations (or A New Look at an Ancient Practice)
May 1, 2005
Despite more intensive guidelines and advances in resuscitation research, the survival rate for victims of cardiopulmonary arrest remains virtually unchanged from forty years ago when modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was first described (1).
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Quality Tools: Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Janet Nagamine, MD;
- Mark Williams, MD, FACP
May 1, 2005
When we speak of “quality” in health care, we generally think of mortality outcomes or regulatory requirements that are mandated by the JCAHO (Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations). But how do these relate to and impact our everyday lives as hospitalists?
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The Hospital Turned Inside Out
May 1, 2005
Richard Wade
If you’re a “boomer”―one of those Americans born between 1946 and 1964―you have witnessed the most dramatic changes in history in the essential community institution called the hospital.
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Hospital Medicine: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
May 1, 2005
An Interview with Bob Wachter, MD, FACP
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A View of the SHM Annual Meeting in Chicago
May 1, 2005
Editor’s Note:
Having returned from the 8th SHM Annual Meeting at the time of this writing, it is clear that this was not only the biggest but also the best Annual Meeting to date.
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Other Literature of Interest
- And David Krakow, MD;
- Craig Gordon, MD;
- David Feinbloom, MD;
- Joseph Li, MD
May 1, 2005
1. Carratala J, FernandezSabe N, Ortega L, et al. Outpatient care compared with hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized trial in low-risk patients. Ann Intern Med. 2005;142: 165-72.