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Opinion
Letter: Working together to empower our next generation of leaders
September 13, 2017
Hospitalist training programs should develop strategies to teach leadership and create forums for trainees to practice their skills, say physicians at the University of Colorado.
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Opinion
Hospital value-based purchasing is largely ineffective
September 7, 2017
Complicated pay-for-performance programs divert limited available resources away from meaningful improvement activities in order to comply with onerous reporting requirements.
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Opinion
Bridging clinical medicine, research, and quality
September 2, 2017
An ongoing research effort seeks to combat catheter–associated urinary tract infections.
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Opinion
Using EHR data to predict post-acute care placement
September 1, 2017
Discharge planning does not necessarily have to start late in the hospital stay.
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Opinion
Sneak Peek: The Hospital Leader blog – Aug. 2017 “A Conversation with Dr. Eric Howell”
August 28, 2017
Leadership is an integral part of quality improvement work as it’s hard to get people to change if you can’t lead them through that change.
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Opinion
Student Hospitalist Scholars: Strengthening research skills
August 25, 2017
A medical school faculty mentor helped Cole Hirschfeld improve the value and credibility of his research.
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Opinion
Immigration reforms: Repercussions for hospitalists and the health care industry
August 16, 2017
The U.S. health care system is starved for hospitalists and primary care physicians, and international medical graduates will continue to play a pivotal role.
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Opinion
The impact of Election 2016
July 28, 2017
The reality is that, the only thing that can save our health care system is if we lower the cost of care. And we know that, as providers, only we can do that.
Opinion
Student Hospitalist Scholars: Discovering a passion for research
July 27, 2017
When Cole Hirschfield decided to leave the business world to pursue a career in medicine, the thought of becoming a researcher had never even crossed his mind.
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Opinion
Student Hospitalist Scholars: The importance of communication
July 26, 2017
What use is clinical knowledge if it cannot be appropriately used to benefit patients in a clinical setting?
