Larry Beresford
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By the Numbers: 1%
August 29, 2012
Share of physician job-search assignments from April 1, 2011, and March 31, 2012, that featured openings for independent, solo practitioners
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Interactive Quality, Leadership Lessons for Residents
August 29, 2012
Medical trainees eager and willing to learn skills that will be required from hospitalists in a reformed healthcare system
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Teach Back Communication Strategy Helps Healthcare Providers Help Their Patients
August 29, 2012
Teach back is a strategy in which providers ask patients to repeat, in their own words, what they have just learned about their medical condition, treatments, and self-care
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Enhanced Provider-Patient Communication Improves Discharge Process
August 28, 2012
Teach-back can help effectively communicate the key teaching points hospitalized patients and their caregivers should take home
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AHRQ’s Director Looks to Hospitalists to Help Reduce Readmissions
August 15, 2012
Carolyn Clancy, MD, urges hospitalists to "embrace the challenge"
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Insurers Promote Collaborative Approach to 30-Day Readmission Reductions
August 1, 2012
Payors offer readmissions programs, reporting mechanisms, beneficiary data
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New Infection-Control Weapons Emerge
July 31, 2012
New technology that infuses a copper oxide into hard surfaces or fabrics could soon become a major weapon in hospitals.
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Demographics Correlate with Physician Web Technology Use
July 31, 2012
Younger, male doctors at teaching hospitals were better predictors of technology use than were practice-based characteristics.
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By the Numbers: 547,596
July 31, 2012
Average annual number of hospitalized adult patients with a VTE during 2007 to 2009.
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Hospitalist-Run Observation Unit Demonstrates Financial Viability
July 31, 2012
Hospital observation unit run by hospitalists rather than by ED physicians can be financially viable.