Larry Beresford
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Hospital Quality Reporting Fails to Impact Death Rates
April 26, 2012
A study concludes that Hospital Compare, the government’s national hospital quality data reporting system, has produced no reductions in 30-day mortality rates for heart attacks and pneumonia.
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Nasim Afsar, New SHM Board Member, Focuses on Improvement Initiatives
April 24, 2012
HM leaders need to disseminate best practices and integrate them into hospital practice, she says
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Jeffrey Glasheen, New SHM Board Member, Committed to Raising Quality of Care
April 18, 2012
Says he’ll “push the envelope” for quality issues
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Engineering Can Help Hospitalists Solve Scheduling Dilemmas
April 5, 2012
Queuing principles, Little’s Law can ease caseload
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"Teach Back" Effective in Improving Patient Communication
April 4, 2012
Give patients smaller doses of information over several days, HM12 presenter advises
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HM Group Scheduling Can Assist in Systems Improvement
April 3, 2012
But schedules can be complicated, and a one-size-fits-all model is nonexistent
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Press Ganey Analyst Explains Implications of Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
April 2, 2012
As much as 7% of Medicare reimbursement could be at stake by 2017, policy expert warns
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Talking Shop: Hospitalists eager to adopt computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
April 2, 2012
Four hospitalists from three hospitals express cautious optimism about the outcomes
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First Set of CMS Advisors Includes Hospitalists
March 31, 2012
In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) selected 73 professionals as the initial set of advisors for its Innovation Center (http://innovations.cms.gov/). The advisors include 37 physicians, as well as some nurses and health administrators.
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Hospitalists Provide Leadership as Unit Medical Directors
March 31, 2012
A project to formalize “local leadership models”—partnering leadership teams comprising a hospitalist and a nurse manager on each participating unit—at the University of Michigan Health System helped to redefine the role of unit medical director and led to allocating sufficie
