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Demystifying Performance Measures for Hospitalists: HCAHPS
- Anunta Virapongse, MD, MPH;
- Kevin Smith, MD;
- Patricia Dharapak, MD;
- Thomas Miller, MD, FHM
May 1, 2024
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey was first implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to assess and compare performance on...
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Pediatric Hospitalists as Physician Advisors Managing Utilization and Denials for Health Systems
- Bianca Barraza, MHA, BSN, RN;
- Jodi Landon, BSN, RN;
- Katherine Johnson, MD;
- Vineeta Mittal, MD, MBA
April 1, 2024
The physician advisor role has been evolving in adult medicine for many years. Hospitalists are well suited for this role given their broad knowledge base regarding health care systems and their...
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Interruptions: Bad for Hospitalists and Their Patients
April 1, 2024
More than 10 years ago this magazine published an article by Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM, a pioneer of hospital medicine and co-founder of the Society of Hospital Medicine, warning of the hazards of...
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Celebrating National Hospitalist Day 2024
March 1, 2024
Many of us spend more time at work than at home, making it easy to become consumed by our jobs. When we describe ourselves, we often mention our profession first. However, we know there’s much more...
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How Can Hospitalists Help Reduce Harmful In-hospital Patient Falls?
March 1, 2024
An estimated 700,000 to 1,000,000 falls occur in hospitalized patients in this country every year, with one-quarter to one-third of the falls leading to injuries. At least 10% of those are serious...
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Hospitalists Play a Leading Role in Responding to Mass-Casualty Incidents
March 1, 2024
Mass shootings. Bioterror attacks. Natural disasters. Wars. There’s seemingly no shortage of potential mass-casualty incidents (MCIs) that can lead health care professionals, including...
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Demystifying Performance Measures for Hospitalists: VTE Prophylaxis
- Atashi Mandal, MD;
- Christopher Bruti, MD, MPH, SFHM;
- Matthew Cerasale, MD, MPH, SFHM
March 1, 2024
As venous thromboembolism (VTE) became an increasingly recognized cause of death in hospitalized patients, prevention became a high priority for the health care system.1,2 Starting in 2005, the Joint...
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Virtual Care Team Increases the Number of Patients with CHF on GDMT During Hospitalization
February 1, 2024
Dr. Pahwa Clinical question: Can a virtual care team increase the number of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) on goal-directed therapy during hospitalization? Background: Maximizing...
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Hospitalists Discover Research Can Extend Their Patient Care Impact
January 2, 2024
Through their integral role in patient care, hospitalists are uniquely situated to identify problems on medical wards and to design research interventions to address these issues. Clinicians who’ve...
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Hospitalists Explore Evolving Roles in Telemedicine
December 1, 2023
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, health care providers had to learn in a hurry how to navigate telemedicine and virtual, distant encounters with patients—using technologies that...