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Charting a new course in sepsis management
- Bryn Nelson, PhD
January 18, 2018
Quality improvement initiatives help hospitalists navigate the challenges of ward-based sepsis care.
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Choosing location after discharge wisely
- MHM;
- Win Whitcomb, MD
January 3, 2018
With a principal focus on hospital length of stay, we have prioritized when patients are ready to leave over where they go after they leave.
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QI enthusiast to QI leader: Sheri Chernetsky Tejedor, MD
- Eli Zimmerman
January 2, 2018
Trained as an engineer, Dr. Sheri Tejedor says knowledge of informatics and the business of medicine is key to institutional quality improvement.
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Adopting the patient’s perspective
- Larry Sharp;
- MD;
- SFHM
December 20, 2017
Taking the time to speak with patients not only demonstrates respect but also reduces their worries and discomfort.
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New curriculum teaches value-based health care
- Suzanne Bopp
December 8, 2017
It is critical that hospitalists understand and embrace the concepts of value, and are able to deliver upon these ideals.
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Managing mental health care at the hospital
- Suzanne Bopp
December 7, 2017
As available resources for people with mental health issues become increasingly scarce, hospitals face a growing, complex challenge.
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Using post-acute and long-term care quality report cards
- And Jeffrey Newman, MD, MPH;
- Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN;
- Leslie Ross, PhD
December 7, 2017
Hospitalists and discharge planners should engage and assist patients, families, and caregivers in the decision making process.
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Swarm and suspicion leadership
- Leonard J. Marcus, PhD
December 4, 2017
Leaders influence the tone and tenor of their own group’s interactions as well as interactions between different working groups.
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Putting Choosing Wisely into practice
- Suzanne Bopp
November 28, 2017
At Mount Sinai Hospital, Choosing Wisely’s guidelines for hospital medicine inspired Harry Cho, MD, FACP, and his colleagues to work on the rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in their hospital.They launched their “Lose the Tube” project, creating an electronic...
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Reducing harm: When doing less is enough
- Suzanne Bopp
November 21, 2017
With the value conversation well underway, Choosing Wisely is shifting focus to implementation.