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The Hospitalist Wins 2024 APEX Award for Publication Excellence
August 9, 2024
The Hospitalist, the official monthly news magazine of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), has won an APEX Award of Excellence in the Magazines, Journals, and Tabloids category for writing for...
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Love and the Hospitalist
July 1, 2024
Some of the most important lessons I’ve learned in life have come from conversations with my patients. Such was the case with Ms. W a wiry 85-year-old who came in with increasing fatigue and a...
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Common Inpatient Cognitive Errors in Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning: Practical Applications for the Hospitalist
July 1, 2024
Everyone has cognitive biases that can lead to errors in diagnosis and have a profound impact on patient management decisions. In this thought-provoking session, Dr. Daniel Restrepo, a hospitalist...
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The Art and Science of Hospitalist Workloads: Designing and Implementing Evidence-Informed Strategies for Optimal Patient, Workforce, and Organizational Outcomes
July 1, 2024
This engaging strategy session was led by two passionate speakers committed to optimizing hospital operations while prioritizing the well-being of hospitalists. They delved into various challenges,...
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Celebrating the Human in Hospitalist (and Patient)
June 13, 2024
2024 National Hospitalist Day Contest Winner I have a small stack of cards. They sit tucked away in a little envelope in a drawer of the desk in my home office. There aren’t many, and I do not...
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Hospitalists as Disruptors in Healthcare
- Flora Kisuule, MD, MPH, SFHM
May 1, 2024
Dr. Kisuule We are living in disruptive times. We are amidst national and global conflict, we survived a pandemic that changed many aspects of our lives permanently, and many of our health...
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4 Things Hospitalists Can Do to Reduce Nursing Turnover
- Weijen Chang, MD, FAAP, SFHM
May 1, 2024
Hospitalists and hospital administrators know the greatest challenge to providing safe, high-quality healthcare day in and day out in the U.S. is adequate nurse staff. Already a problem before the...
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Tricky Transitions: How SNF Challenges Affect Hospitalists
May 1, 2024
With skilled nursing facing thin margins and high costs, many hospitalists are also struggling to transfer patients for the care they need from these types of facilities. This becomes a big...
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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...