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Efficacy of AI models in Detecting Clinical Deterioration
January 1, 2025
Clinical question: Can an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled intervention model reduce the risk of clinical deterioration and subsequent care escalation in hospitalized patients? Background:...
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SHM Hill Day 2024
January 1, 2025
Members of SHM met with legislators and staff to discuss important issues affecting hospitalists and their patients during SHM’s annual Hill Day in September On September 26, 2024, SHM’s...
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Residents Look Forward to a New Year
January 1, 2025
The beginning of a new year is often a time of reflection and introspection as people make plans for the coming year and for their futures. Last month we enjoyed hearing from seasoned hospitalists,...
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To Preround or Not?
- Jose Negrete Manriquez, MD;
- Lucy Shi, MD;
- Mandi Abdel Ahad, DO;
- Richard M. Wardrop III, MD, PhD, FAAP, MACP, SFHM
December 2, 2024
Modern hospital medicine practice is diverse and characterizable through its willingness to innovate and be inclusive of new ideas and perspectives. While hospitalists aspire to evidence-based...
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Chapter Spotlight: Long Island
December 2, 2024
For some early career hospitalists, it can take years to realize the value of networking. Some practitioners in their first years on the job can get caught up in the day-to-day work and not...
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Less Bloat, More Clarity: Optimizing Inpatient Notes
- Elizabeth Mertens, MD;
- Vanessa McFadden, MD, PhD, SFHM
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap The objectives of this session were to define note bloat, identify unnecessary contributors to clinical note length, describe methods to decrease extraneous data and improve...
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Change is Hard: 5 Practical Tips to Leading Change from Rounds to the Board Room
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap This session, presented by Brittany Hunter, MD, and Cynthia Castiglioni, MD, MS, was a high-yield quick hit that gave practical solutions on how to implement meaningful change...
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Growing Pains: How to Successfully Navigate Inpatient Pediatric-to-Adult Care Transition
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap In this interactive workshop, the presenters, Ruchi Doshi, MD, Colby Feeney, MD, Kelly Grannan, MD, Christy Mulligan, MD, Rachel Peterson, MD, and Jesse Rhodes, MD, (who were...
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Anchors Away! Operationalizing the Diagnostic Timeout to Overcome Cognitive Bias
- A. Noell Conley Hamlin, DO
November 1, 2024
PHM 2024 Session Recap This session began with a discussion of a patient presentation pediatric hospitalists are very familiar with—a toddler with vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain most...
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PHM 2024: Health Equity, Advocacy, AI, and an Astronaut
- Anika Kumar, MD, FAAP, FHM
November 1, 2024
The 2024 Annual Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference’s theme was “How We PHM,” uniting more than 1,200 pediatric hospitalists who attended the conference in Minneapolis in August. According...