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News
SHM’s Twitter Contest Encourages Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing
March 14, 2016
When developing the “Fight the Resistance” campaign last year, the SHM team knew that antibiotic resistance would continue to be one of the most high-profile medical concerns heading into 2016.
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SHM Announces 2016 Awards of Excellence Winners
March 13, 2016
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) created the Awards of Excellence Program to honor its members whose exemplary contributions to the hospital medicine movement merit acknowledgment and celebration.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Medical, Behavioral Management of Eating Disorders
- David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM
March 11, 2016
Presenter: Kyung E. Rhee, MD, MSc, MA
Summary: Eating disorders (ED) are common and have significant morbidity and mortality. EDs are the third most common psychiatric disorder of adolescents with a prevalence of 0.5-2% for anorexia and 0.9-3% for bulimia; 90% of patients are female.
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Preventing Patient Falls
March 11, 2016
Patient falls are a national issue, creating costs for every player in the healthcare system.
“Patient falls negatively impact patient outcomes, hospital costs, and costs for insurance and health systems,” says Jennifer Hefner, PhD, MPH, lead author of “A Falls Wheel in a Large Academic Medical C
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HM16 Session Analysis: Nonpharmacological Treatment Approach Better for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM
March 10, 2016
Presenter: Matthew Grossman, MD, FAAP
Summary: Treating Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) traditionally has followed a standardized approach using the Finnegan Scoring System in which if there were three consecutive scores > 8 or two scores > 12, medications would be started.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Stay Calm, Safe During Inpatient Behavioral Emergencies
- David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM
March 10, 2016
Presenters: David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM, Emily Fingado, MD, FAAP, and Jessica Tomaszewski, MD, FAAP
Summary: Patients may engage in violent behaviors that pose a danger to themselves or others.
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Opinion
Revisiting the ‘Key Principles and Characteristics of an Effective Hospital Medicine Group’
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
March 10, 2016
It has been two years since the “Key Characteristics” was published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.1 The SHM board of directors envisions the Key Characteristics as a tool to improve the performance of hospital medicine groups (HMGs) and “raise the bar” for the specialty.
At SHM’s annual mee
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HM16 Session Analysis: Update in Pulmonary Medicine
March 9, 2016
Presenter: Daniel D. Dressler, MD, MSc, SFHM
Summary: This presentation focused on pulmonary updates specific to hospitalist practice, from end of 2014 to early 2016.
New research on community-acquired pneumonia suggest that only 38% of cases a presumptive pathogen will be isolated.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Health Information Technology Controversies
March 9, 2016
Presenter: Julie Hollberg, MD
Summary: Dr.
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10 Questions You Should Consider for Specialist Consultations
- Ernie L. Esquivel, MD;
- Patrick A. Rendon, MD
March 9, 2016
Caring for patients in the inpatient setting is complex and often requires consultation from specialists. Yet the actual skill of obtaining a consult is rarely taught.