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Hospitalists Discover Research Can Extend Their Patient Care Impact
January 2, 2024
Through their integral role in patient care, hospitalists are uniquely situated to identify problems on medical wards and to design research interventions to address these issues. Clinicians who’ve...
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Hospitalists Explore Evolving Roles in Telemedicine
December 1, 2023
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, health care providers had to learn in a hurry how to navigate telemedicine and virtual, distant encounters with patients—using technologies that...
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Behavioral Emergency Response Teams and Racial Bias in Pediatric Hospitals
November 1, 2023
Dr. Edwards Presenters: Rachel Peterson, MD, and Edward Kim, MD Recently, concern has been growing about hospital patient-to-worker harm events and the increase in patients with mental health...
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Hospitalist’s Role in a Transfer Center
November 1, 2023
Dr. Nguyen Presenters: Sara Sanders, MD, and Rebecca M. Cantu, MD, MPH Drs. Sanders and Cantu are pediatric hospitalists who played an integral role in the development of an extended transfer...
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Onco-Hospitalists Bring Value to Patient Care
October 2, 2023
Most working hospitalists will see cancer patients regularly on their hospital rounds since it’s the main underlying condition for many hospital admissions—whether for the disease itself, side...
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Women Hospitalists Supporting Women
September 1, 2023
One of the most powerful displays of support among women is when they show up for each other in their professions. This is especially true in hospital medicine, where women have made significant...
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Demystifying Performance Measures for Hospitalists: Discharge Before Noon
- Christopher Bartlett, MD, MPH;
- Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, SFHM;
- Housam Hegazy, MD, MBA, MLA, CPE, FACP, SFHM
August 1, 2023
SHM’s Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee (PMRC) members debut a new column in The Hospitalist—“Demystifying Performance Measures.” This series intends to provide members with a...
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Empathy for the Rural Hospitalist
August 1, 2023
In residency, we had derisive nicknames for the hospitals in the surrounding rural areas that would frequently send us patients. After we were notified of the transfer, we stayed on edge until the...
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Environmental Service Workers’ Impact on Hospitalists
August 1, 2023
Anyone who works in a hospital knows how important environmental services (EVS) professionals are to providing a safe, functional, supportive environment for patients and staff. Like many aspects of...
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How Having a Medical Writer on Staff Can Help Your Team
- Jasmah Hanna, MS;
- Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH
August 1, 2023
Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall: Hospitalists face numerous demands, and those in academic medicine are also expected to write and publish their work in peer-reviewed journals, present at conferences,...