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Sneak Peek: The Hospital Leader Blog
May 17, 2017
The relationship between a hospitalist and the group he or she is part of is a lot like a marriage.
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Sneak Peek: Journal of Hospital Medicine
May 16, 2017
Read the latest research from the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the premier publication for dissemination of research and education for the specialty of hospital medicine.
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Oral iron of no benefit in heart failure with iron deficiency
May 16, 2017
High-dose oral iron therapy doesn’t improve exercise capacity in the estimated 50% of patients with symptomatic heart failure who also have iron deficiency, according to a report published online May 16 in JAMA.Iron deficiency in patients with HF, regardless of their hemoglobin status, is ...
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Principles learned from a successful improvement program can increase compliance and reduce hospital acquired VTEs (HA-VTEs) across multiple institutions
May 12, 2017
Can a single institution’s VTE prophylaxis program be scaled to increase prophylaxis and reduce HA-VTEs across multiple institutions?
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When one patient decompensates, others on the ward may follow
May 12, 2017
How does the clinical decompensation of a ward patient affect the likelihood of another patient’s decompensation?
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On 15 years: Celebrating a nocturnist’s career longevity
May 11, 2017
On a regular basis, I talk with hospitalist groups lamenting their inability to find nocturnists willing to work the same number of hours and shifts as their day doctors, for little or no additional compensation.
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Interventions, especially those that are organization-directed, reduce burnout in physicians
May 11, 2017
How efficacious are interventions to reduce burnout in physicians?
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Alpha blockers may facilitate the expulsion of larger ureteric stones
May 11, 2017
Are alpha blockers efficacious in patients with ureteric stones?
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PPIs triple heart failure hospitalization risk in atrial fib patients
May 10, 2017
PARIS – Atrial fib patients taking proton pump inhibitors, largely unnecessarily, have a far greater risk of hospitalization for an acute heart failure episode.
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RIV spotlights HM-focused research in real-time
May 9, 2017
LAS VEGAS – SHM’s annual Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes poster competition has exploded in popularity over the past few years.
