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Hospitalist Programs Climb Aboard Palliative-Care Bandwagon
April 26, 2012
As palliative care gains traction nationwide, hospitalist programs envision larger role
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HM12 Highlights Hospitalists’ Excellence, Importance to Healthcare’s Future
April 26, 2012
SHM’s annual meeting, held April 1-4 at the San Diego Convention Center, drew thousands to educational sessions, CME-eligible pre-courses, and plenary addresses.
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HM12’s Clinical Pearls
April 26, 2012
Team Hospitalist delivers key takeaways from the annual meeting’s clinical tracks
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HM12 Experts Teach Hospitalists to Deal with Practice-Management Issues
April 26, 2012
Hospitalists looking for realtime advice on the business side of medicine came away from HM12 last month with brown bags full of tips.
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Vanderbilt Hospitalist Impresses RIV Judges with Sample Size, Takes Home Research Prize
April 26, 2012
“Veterans Administration Acute Care 30-Day Mortality Model: Development, Validation, and Performance Variation” poster wins honor.
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Hospitalist Investigators Impress Judges at HM12’s Annual RIV Competition
April 26, 2012
Nearly 150 HM-focused innovations abstracts were submitted for the 2012 Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes poster competition at HM12, and more than 60 of the submitters were invited to display posters in San Diego.
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HM12’s Professional Development Offerings Have Singular Focus
April 26, 2012
This year’s pre-course lineup included the MOC test preparation, hands-on classes in medical procedures and ultrasound usage, and a debut class on “How to Improve Performance in CMS’s Value-Based Purchasing Program.”
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HM Leaders Call for Thoughtful, Budget-Minded Advancement of Patient-Safety Reforms
April 26, 2012
The crossroads of patient safety, QI, and the use of technology from medical devices to iPhones was a major theme at SHM’s annual meeting, April 1-4 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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D.C. Insiders, HM Leaders Urge Hospitalists to Stay in Fight to Achieve Quality in Era of Reform
April 26, 2012
SHM Public Policy Committee Chair Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, outlined how accountable care organizations are designed to change the healthcare payment paradigm.
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ITL: Physician Reviews of HM-Relevant Research
April 26, 2012
Online calculator helps prevent post-op respiratory failure; new drug for long-term treatment of PE; benefits of triple therapy for COPD; knee-length compression stockings as good as thigh-length for PTS; video monitoring improves hand hygiene; asymptomatic bacteriuria often misdiagnosed as UTI; CT accurate for lower GI bleeding diagnosis; switch from albuterol to lavalbuterol to reduce tachycardia not recommended.
