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Report Shows Implanted Cardioveter-defibrillators Carries High Risk
May 11, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) carry a high risk of long-term complications, especially for younger patients, women, and blacks, researchers report. Early implantation-related risks such as device malfunction are well known, but longer-term risks -- espec
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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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Is Email an Endangered Species?
May 10, 2016
Forty-five years ago, an engineer in Boston sent an electronic message between two computers some 10 feet apart.
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Study Shows Statins lower the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
May 10, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Lipid-lowering therapy, consisting almost entirely of statins, substantially lowered the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cardiovascular death in individuals with type 1 diabetes without a history of CVD, according to a new study. Among more than 24,000 Swedish
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Benefits of Hospital-Wide Mortality Reviews
May 9, 2016
Death is a subject everyone cares about—but we could talk about it more, especially in hospitals, where a lot of people die.
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SHM Seats Its First Non-Physician Board Member
May 9, 2016
New Society of Hospital Medicine board member Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM, isn’t on the board because she’s a nurse practitioner (NP).
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Helicobacter Pylori Treatment is Associated with a Short-term Increase in the Risk of Neuropsychiatic Events
May 9, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Helicobacter pylori treatment containing clarithromycin is associated with a short-term increase in the risk of neuropsychiatric events, according to a study from Hong Kong. Neuropsychiatric events following clarithromycin therapy have been reported previously, but no
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Leadership Academy to Be Held in Florida
May 8, 2016
A successful hospitalist program requires strong leadership from the floor to the C-suite. SHM’s Leadership Academy prepares clinical and academic leaders with vital skills traditionally not taught in medical school or typical residency programs.
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Hospital Medicine’s Movers and Shakers – May 2016
May 8, 2016
Eric Howell, MD, MHM, recently was promoted to professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr. Howell serves as division director of the Collaborative Inpatient Medicine Service (CIMS) at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
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Should Patients Who Develop Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation Start Anticoagulation?
May 8, 2016
Case A 66-year-old man with diabetes mellitus type 2 and hypertension underwent left total knee replacement. Several hours after surgery, the patient developed atrial fibrillation (AF). He was asymptomatic, and reversible causes of AF were ruled out.
