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Advancing Toward the Ideal Hospital Discharge for the Elderly Patient
- And Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD;
- Dennis Manning, MD, FACP, FACC;
- Sunil Kripalani, MD
May 1, 2005
Development of a Hospitalist Checklist and Possible SHM Consensus Statement
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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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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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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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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.
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Four Physicians Presented SHM’s 2005 National Awards of Excellence
- Kevin/ross Public Relations;
- Lisa Freeman
May 1, 2005
SHM presented its 2005 national awards of excellence to four hospitalists whose work and research have contributed significantly to hospital medicine and to the betterment of hospital care across America.
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SHM Inducts New Officers at Annual Meeting
- Kevin/ross Public Relations;
- Lisa Freeman
May 1, 2005
Steven Pantilat, MD, assumed the role of SHM’s new president at the 2005 Annual Meeting, along with a slate of other newly elected officers, including: Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, president elect, William Atchley, MD, FACP, treasurer, and Lisa Kettering, MD, FACP, secretary.
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Health Care Will Be Better and You Will Make It Happen
- Larry Wellikson, MD, FACP
March 2, 2005
The vision of a re-engineered hospital with patient-centered care, delivered by a fully empowered team of professionals, which is data driven with clear quality measurements, where better performance is rewarded by better compensation is coming to a hospital near you during your professional career.
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Pediatric in the Literature
March 1, 2005
Parents' Priorities and Satisfaction with Acute Pediatric Care; and Evaluation of a Staff-Only Hospitalist System in a Tertiary Care, Academic Children's Hospital
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Other Literature of Interest
- Brian Harte, MD;
- Christopher Whinney, MD;
- Sanjeev Suri Md
March 1, 2005
1. Dexter PR, Perkins SM, Mahany KS, Jones K, McDonald CJ. Inpatient computer-based standing orders vs. physician reminders to increase influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2004; 292: 2366-71.