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Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography, Radionuclide Stress Testing Similar for Evaluation of Chest Pain
October 5, 2015
Clinical question: Is coronary computed tomography angiography better than stress testing for detecting coronary artery disease? Bottom line: For the evaluation of chest pain in intermediate-risk patients, coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is comparable with myocardial perfusion ima
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Interdisciplinary Team Interventions Have Little Impact on Traditional Quality Measures
October 5, 2015
Clinical question: Do interdisciplinary team care interventions affect outcomes for hospitalized patients in general medical wards? Bottom line: Interdisciplinary team care interventions do not significantly affect oft-used quality measures such as length of stay, readmissions, or mortality.
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Hospital Medicine Administrator Amanda Trask Values Hospitalists, HM Role in Healthcare
October 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11467" align="alignright" width="250"] Image Credit: ILLUSTRATION/PAUL JUESTRICH; PHOTOs shutterstock.com[/caption] Most people think a career in hospital medicine means a medical degree that confers those two ubiquitous letters after your name. Amanda Trask blazed her
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Hospitals Save Estimated $67 Million by Tracking Energy Consumption
October 5, 2015
Estimated savings in energy costs posted by hospitals participating in the American Hospital Association’s affiliated American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) Energy to Care Program.
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How to Develop a Comprehensive Pediatric Palliative Care Program
October 5, 2015
For Ami Doshi, MD, FAAP, a hospitalist at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, the path to establishing a comprehensive pediatric palliative care program began with her realization during medical training that doctors didn’t always adequately address the suffering of young patients with advanced dise
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Consumer Reports Rates Hospitals on Infection Control, Prevention
October 5, 2015
Consumer Reports included for the first time in its national hospital quality ratings a ranking of how well 3,000 hospitals are controlling common deadly infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile. The How Your Hospital Can Make You Sick report
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Joint Commission Offers Resource to Prevent Hospital Falls
October 5, 2015
The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare has released its Targeted Solutions Tool for preventing hospital inpatient falls and falls with injuries.
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Hospitalists’ Research Analyzes Links between Hyperglycemia, Sleep Deprivation
October 5, 2015
An RIV poster presented at HM15 highlights a common problem hospitalists face: morning hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients, including patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes.1 Lead author Regina Heyl DePietro, BA, now a medical student at Stony Brook (N.Y.) School of Medicine, working wit
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Expert Witness Primer Offers Tips for Hospitalists
October 5, 2015
Editor’s note: Second in a two-part series on hospitalists as expert witnesses. You have officially decided to take the plunge and become an expert witness, but you have never seen the inside of a courtroom, sat for a deposition, or prepared an expert report.
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Hospitalist Lance Maki, MD, Spends Spare Time Tandem Surfing, Practicing Ballet
October 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11428" align="alignright" width="293"] Dr. Maki playing the part of Herr Drosselmeyer in the Nutcracker at the Cocoa Village (Fla.) Playhouse.Photo courtesy of the Galmont Ballet[/caption] Lance Maki, MD, has accomplished many things in his life.
