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What Is the Optimal Therapy for Acute DVT?
July 31, 2012
VTE, including lower- and upperextremity DVT and pulmonary embolism, is one of the most common and preventable hospital diseases.
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ITL: Physician Reviews of HM-Relevant Research
July 31, 2012
Neutral head position safe for internal jugular vein cannulation; thrombolysis decreases mortality in unstable patients with acute PE; rectal indomethacin decreases incidence of post-ERCP pancreatitis; CHADS2-VASc and HAS-BLED as predictors in afib patients; no readmission, mortality decreases with self-supported COPD management; Medicare Premier P4P initiatives do not decrease mortality; in-hospital rate of DVT/PE after hip and knee arthroplasty; sodium chloride prevents contrast-induced nephropathy.
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Collaboration Prevents Identification Band Errors
July 31, 2012
Can a quality-improvement collaborative decrease patient ID band errors?
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The Academic Hospitalist Academy Helps Researchers Get Ahead
July 31, 2012
The course focuses on the unique environment, challenges, and opportunities for academic hospitalists.
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Ready to Reduce Your Hospital’s Readmissions?
July 31, 2012
Submit your Project BOOST application before Sept. 1.
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Adult Hospital Medicine Boot Camp Offers PAs, NPs Advanced Training
July 31, 2012
The education-focused “boot camp” immerses clinicians an intensive internal-medicine review of commonly encountered diagnoses and diseases in hospitalized adult patients.
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Recoding: SHM’s Popular Coding Series Returns
July 31, 2012
CODE-H gathers the foremost experts in hospital coding to help HM groups capture revenue and maintain compliance.
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Survey Insights: Better Understand CPT Coding Intensity
July 31, 2012
Ways to benchmark your group’s coding performance against other similar groups.
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Hospitalists On the Move
July 31, 2012
Movers and shakers in hospital medicine; new business moves.
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Established Performance Metrics Help CMS Expand Its Value-Based Purchasing Program
July 31, 2012
CMS is marching toward a value-based payment modifier program that will adjust physician reimbursement based on the relative quality and efficiency of care they provide.
