Stewardship Prompts to Improve Antibiotic Selection for UTI
May 1, 2025
Clinical question: Can computerized provider order entry (CPOE) prompts reduce the use of empiric extended-spectrum antibiotics in patients with urinary tract infections (UTI)? Background: UTIs...
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Non-Medical Consequences: The 6th Element of Informed Consent
- Lisa Simmon, MD, MBA, CHCQM, SFHM
May 1, 2025
Informed consent is critical to the daily practice of medicine. Conversations about the risks and benefits of treatment options are both a legal requirement and an ethical duty. However, another...
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JHM’s Progress Notes
May 1, 2025
Hospitalists would tend to agree that it’s great that medical journals are published every month to provide clinicians and healthcare practitioners with new research findings and perspectives that...
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AAPI Heritage Hospitalists Reflect on Their Life and Professional Experiences
May 1, 2025
May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In honor of this month, The Hospitalist interviewed several AAPI hospitalists to learn more about how their upbringing influenced them...
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2025 Masters in Hospital Medicine
May 1, 2025
The Society of Hospital Medicine inducted four new Masters in Hospital Medicine (MHM) at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas. This honor was introduced by SHM in 2010 to acknowledge hospitalists who have...
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The Transformative Role of POCUS in Hospital Medicine
- Elian D. Abou Asala, MD, MBA;
- Tanveer Singh, MD, FACP, FRCP (Edin), FHM
May 1, 2025
POCUS is a new column on point-of-care ultrasound. This column aims to explore evolving clinical applications, educational advancements, and the clinical impacts of POCUS through the insights of...
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The Committee That Could: A Model for Rapid Service Structure Change
- Samantha Murray-Bainer, MD;
- Sarah Ahrens, MD
May 1, 2025
How We Did It is a new column that aims to highlight how individual hospitalist programs have successfully implemented innovations in medical programs, educational programs, wellness initiatives, or...
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Supply Chain Stewardship
- Mihir H Patel, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, CLHM, SFHM
May 1, 2025
Healthcare supply chain disruptions have emerged as a major challenge nationwide, fundamentally reshaping clinical practice and patient-care delivery within hospitals. As clinicians, we increasingly...
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SIG Spotlight: Research
May 1, 2025
Being the newest anything can be both a blessing and a curse. For SHM’s Research Special Interest Group, which just formed in October 2024, the positives of being so new are that the group is...
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Chapter Spotlight: NC Triangle
May 1, 2025
Look, anything good enough for the iconic character of Crash Davis in the movie Bull Durham is good enough for hospital medicine. At least, so says the attendance of the Durham Bulls social event...