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Quality Tools: Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Janet Nagamine, MD;
- Mark Williams, MD, FACP
May 1, 2005
When we speak of “quality” in health care, we generally think of mortality outcomes or regulatory requirements that are mandated by the JCAHO (Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations). But how do these relate to and impact our everyday lives as hospitalists?
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The Hospital Turned Inside Out
May 1, 2005
Richard Wade
If you’re a “boomer”―one of those Americans born between 1946 and 1964―you have witnessed the most dramatic changes in history in the essential community institution called the hospital.
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Hospital Medicine: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
May 1, 2005
An Interview with Bob Wachter, MD, FACP
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A View of the SHM Annual Meeting in Chicago
May 1, 2005
Editor’s Note:
Having returned from the 8th SHM Annual Meeting at the time of this writing, it is clear that this was not only the biggest but also the best Annual Meeting to date.
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Be There or Be Square
- Larry Wellikson, MD, FACP
May 1, 2005
The bomb. The franchise. Sine qua non. Must see. Must be there. How do you say it when something or someone just seems to be in the middle of everything?
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Terri Schiavo and the Pope: My Lessons Learned
- Steven Pantilat, MD, FACP
May 1, 2005
As I write first column as President of SHM, palliative care has been much in the news.
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Other Literature of Interest
- And David Krakow, MD;
- Craig Gordon, MD;
- David Feinbloom, MD;
- Joseph Li, MD
May 1, 2005
1. Carratala J, FernandezSabe N, Ortega L, et al. Outpatient care compared with hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized trial in low-risk patients. Ann Intern Med. 2005;142: 165-72.
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Opportunity to Partner in Improving Care: The Medicare Chronic Care improvement Programs
May 1, 2005
Update from the Public Policy Committee
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SHM Elects Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP, to newly Created Pediatrics Seat on Board of Directors
- Kevin/ross Public Relations;
- Lisa Freeman
May 1, 2005
SHM has created a new seat on the Board of Directors that must be filled by a pediatric hospitalist and has elected Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP as its new pediatric board member. Dr. Percelay began serving a 1-year term on the SHM board beginning April 29, 2005.
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Managing Physician Performance in Hospital Medicine
May 1, 2005
Joel Barker describes leadership as “…the ability to take people where they otherwise would not go.” In other words, leadership is about creating change in something that exists today.