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Should a Patient Who Requests Alcohol Detoxification Be Admitted or Treated as Outpatient?
March 16, 2016
Case A 42-year-old man with a history of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), hypertension, and alcohol use disorder (AUD) presents to the ED requesting alcohol detoxification. He has had six admissions in the last six months for alcohol detoxification.
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Start Preparing for the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine Exam
March 15, 2016
The Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine exam is just two months away (May 17). Have you started your preparation? SHM recently developed the only maintenance of certification (MOC) exam by hospitalists for hospitalists.
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MACRA Provides New Direction for U.S. Healthcare
March 14, 2016
Last year, Congress passed legislation to permanently eliminate the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, created in 1997 and designed to hold Medicare Part B or outpatient spending under control.
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SHM’s Twitter Contest Encourages Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing
March 14, 2016
When developing the “Fight the Resistance” campaign last year, the SHM team knew that antibiotic resistance would continue to be one of the most high-profile medical concerns heading into 2016.
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SHM Announces 2016 Awards of Excellence Winners
March 13, 2016
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) created the Awards of Excellence Program to honor its members whose exemplary contributions to the hospital medicine movement merit acknowledgment and celebration.
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Benefits of Medicaid Expansion for Hospitalists
March 12, 2016
By January 2016, 31 states and the District of Columbia had embraced the Medicaid expansion brought to bear by the Affordable Care Act.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Medical, Behavioral Management of Eating Disorders
March 11, 2016
Presenter: Kyung E. Rhee, MD, MSc, MA Summary: Eating disorders (ED) are common and have significant morbidity and mortality. EDs are the third most common psychiatric disorder of adolescents with a prevalence of 0.5-2% for anorexia and 0.9-3% for bulimia; 90% of patients are female.
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Preventing Patient Falls
March 11, 2016
Patient falls are a national issue, creating costs for every player in the healthcare system. “Patient falls negatively impact patient outcomes, hospital costs, and costs for insurance and health systems,” says Jennifer Hefner, PhD, MPH, lead author of “A Falls Wheel in a Large Academic Medical C
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Frontline Teams Needed for Rapidly Changing Healthcare
March 11, 2016
Healthcare is changing rapidly, shifting focus from volume to value, says Jeffrey Glasheen, MD, SFHM, lead author of the abstract “Developing Frontline Teams to Drive Health System Transformation.” To support this transformation, frontline clinical leaders need to be able to build and manage teams a
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HM16 Session Analysis: Nonpharmacological Treatment Approach Better for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
March 10, 2016
Presenter: Matthew Grossman, MD, FAAP Summary: Treating Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) traditionally has followed a standardized approach using the Finnegan Scoring System in which if there were three consecutive scores > 8 or two scores > 12, medications would be started.
