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SHM Leaders Discuss Growth of Specialty Hospitalist Medicine
May 15, 2012
JAMA editorial analyzes potential for improvements in care, calls for more data on key outcomes
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Work-Life Balance for Hospitalists a People Issue, Not a Women’s Issue
April 26, 2012
Individual hospitalists can mitigate strain and dissatisfaction by assessing their life and goals, and developing a work-life balance that is right for them.
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Hospitalist Programs Climb Aboard Palliative-Care Bandwagon
April 26, 2012
As palliative care gains traction nationwide, hospitalist programs envision larger role
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HM12 Experts Teach Hospitalists to Deal with Practice-Management Issues
April 26, 2012
Hospitalists looking for realtime advice on the business side of medicine came away from HM12 last month with brown bags full of tips.
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Vanderbilt Hospitalist Impresses RIV Judges with Sample Size, Takes Home Research Prize
April 26, 2012
“Veterans Administration Acute Care 30-Day Mortality Model: Development, Validation, and Performance Variation” poster wins honor.
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Hospitalist Investigators Impress Judges at HM12’s Annual RIV Competition
April 26, 2012
Nearly 150 HM-focused innovations abstracts were submitted for the 2012 Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes poster competition at HM12, and more than 60 of the submitters were invited to display posters in San Diego.
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Win Whitcomb: Hospitalists, PCPs, and Population Health
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
April 26, 2012
Game on with SHM’s Complex Medically Ill Project
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Why Hospitalists are Important, Integral, and Irreplaceable
April 26, 2012
As an introduction to my new role as physician editor, I should explain why I took this on. Simply stated: I drank the Kool-Aid. I firmly believe in the power and future of hospital medicine.
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John Nelson: Your Hospital Should Use Scripts to Describe Hospitalists to Patients
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
April 26, 2012
Ideally, all communication about the hospitalist as an individual and the whole system of hospitalist care should help reassure the patient. Sadly, many people at the hospital unwittingly do the opposite.
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Wachter Highlights New Era for Hospitalists
April 5, 2012
Increasingly complex healthcare system calls for hospitalists to “champion reform,” Wachter tells HM12 attendees