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Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care
- Coordinating Writer;
- Mary Pak, MD;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leaders;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 2, 2005
Patient safety and improved quality of care have become priority issues in the American healthcare system.
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Maximizing Throughput and Improving Patient Flow
- Coordinating Writer;
- Patrick Cawley, MD;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leader;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 2, 2005
According to data from the American Hospital Association (1), in 1985, the United States had 5732 operational community hospitals; by 2002, the latest year for which figures are available, the number had decreased to 4927, a loss of approximately 14% (1).
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Improving Resource Utilization
- Coordinating Writer;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leader;
- Saeed Syed, MD;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 2, 2005
Today’s hospitals must address a variety of challenges stemming from the expectation to provide more services and better quality with fewer financial, material, and human resources.
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Providing Extraordinary Availability
- Coordinating Writer;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leader;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee;
- Stacy Goldsholl, MD
September 1, 2005
In 1994, Jack Rosenbloom was admitted to an Indiana hospital after suffering a serious heart attack. While in the critical care unit (CCU) of the healthcare facility, he experienced a major relapse, prompting a “code blue” situation.
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Leading Hospital Medical Staffs
- Coordinating Writer;
- Mary Pak, MD And Kathleen Kerr;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leader;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 1, 2005
When Robert Lee, MD, an internist affiliated with Iowa Health Physicians, a multi-specialty group in Des Moines, was called to the hospital to see one of his patients, he faced a 50-minute round trip plus additional time to find a parking place and catch an elevator before reaching the inpatient uni
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Improving Physician’s Practices
- Burke T. Kealey, MD And Larry Vidrine, MD;
- Coordinating Writer;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leaders;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 1, 2005
Hospitals face a range of critical issues and need members of their medical staff to assume a role in addressing them.
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Treating Unassigned Patients
- Coordinating Writer;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 1, 2005
In the 1970s and 1980s, indigent patients experienced problems at hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) around the country. They were refused care and shuttled to other facilities for services.
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Introduction from the Editor
September 1, 2005
How Hospitalists Add Value
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The Future Role of Hospitalists
- Ceo;
- David L. Bernd;
- Sentara Healthcare
September 1, 2005
Since the mid 1990s when Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman first coined the term ''hospitalist',' we have seen the nation's hospitals and health systems open their doors to these ''specialists in inpatient medicine'' (1).
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Publication as Patient
September 1, 2005
Newman ponders how The Hospitalist will evolve during his tenure