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Improve Quality, Patient Safety with SHM’s Online Toolkits and Implementation Guides
June 4, 2016
SHM’s implementation toolkits provide hospitalists with the resources they need to lead quality improvement projects on a variety of clinical topics, including a new toolkit on venous thromboembolism (VTE) released in May.
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Everything You Want to Know About Living with a Hospitalist
- Karen Pressel;
- Rob Pressel
May 31, 2016
As a hospitalist, patient satisfaction is top of mind. Then there’s another group of people whose satisfaction is also paramount: your family. What do they have to say about life with a hospitalist?
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New Tool Kit Available for Treating Patients with VTE
April 28, 2016
To ensure hospitalists have the latest information about diagnosis, treatment, and transition of hospitalized patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE), SHM has developed:
An online tool kit, including a literature review; implementation guide; and other references, materials, and tools such as
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Improve Your Treatment of VTE
April 12, 2016
It is estimated that 250,000 to 600,000 patients are diagnosed and hospitalized annually with venous thromboembolism (VTE), the third most common cardiovascular illness after acute coronary syndrome and stroke. An estimated 300,000 VTE-related deaths occur in the U.S.
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Start Planning for Hospital Medicine 2016
November 4, 2015
At the end of the year, many hospitalists still have funds left in their CME stipends.
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Opinion
Eliminations Hospitalist Groups Should Consider
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
November 4, 2015
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Editor’s note: Second in a continuing series of articles exploring ways hospitalist groups can cut back.
In last month’s column, I made the case that most hospitalist groups should think abo
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10 Things Geriatricians Want Hospitalists to Know
October 6, 2015
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How many octogenarians do you treat in a year? Nonagenarians? Centenarians? How much have their numbers increased over the last two decades?
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Opinion
Empathy, Patients, and Caregivers
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
October 5, 2015
Empathy—the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experiences and emotions: the ability to share someone else’s feelings.
—Merriam-Webster
By the time I became a third-year medical resident, I had mastered the repertoire of “don’t tread on me” behaviors that seemed essential to
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Hospitalists Get Prep Tool for ABIM’s Hospital Medicine MOC Exam
September 9, 2015
SHM's SPARK tool helps hospitalists brush up on skills, knowledge needed to pass
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PHM15: Inter-Professional Approach to Patient Safety Training
July 27, 2015
Summary:
In an era where a majority of the pediatric hospital workforce is just starting to recognize fish bone diagrams, five why questions, root cause analysis, IHI, Lean, six sigma and pareto charts, hospitalists can be daunted as they try to serve as the home for quality improvement and patient