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Institute of Medicine Report Examines Medical Misdiagnoses
November 30, 2015
In the latest report in its series on quality and patient safety in healthcare, the Institute of Medicine addresses the challenge of errors in medical diagnoses. Authors of the IOM’s “Improving Diagnosis in Health Care” report cite problems in communication and limitations in electronic health re
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Quality Improvement Initiative Targets Sepsis
November 30, 2015
A quality improvement (QI) initiative at University Hospital in Salt Lake City aims to save lives and cut hospital costs by reducing inpatient sepsis mortality. Program co-leaders, hospitalists Devin Horton, MD, and Kencee Graves, MD, of University Hospital, launched the initiative as a pilot pro
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Thombosis Management Demands Balanced Approach
November 30, 2015
[caption id="attachment_12180" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] The delicate balance involved in providing hospitalized patients with needed anticoagulant, anti-platelet, and thrombolytic therapies for stroke and possible cardiac complications, while minimi
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Liver Transplant Only Cure for Some Inpatients with Cirrhosis
November 30, 2015
Bilal Hameed, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology at the University of California San Francisco, reviewed a wide range of serious and life-threatening medical complications resulting from cirrhosis during the annual UCSF Management of the Hospitalized Patient conf
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Hospital Medicine Flourishing Around the World
November 4, 2015
Since last September, Anand Kartha, MD, MS, has headed the hospital medicine (HM) program at 600-bed Hamad General Hospital, the flagship facility for eight-hospital Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar, a small nation of 1.8 million people located on the northeast corner of the Arabian Peninsul
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Listen Now: Dr. Peter Jamieson Discusses Evolution of Hospital Medicine in Canada
November 4, 2015
Peter Jamieson, MD, medical director of Foothills Medical Center in Calgary, Alberta, talks about hospital medicine's evolution Canada away from the term “hospitalist” and toward the establishment and development of a core curriculum and credential of added competency in hospital medicine. [audi
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Listen Now: Dr. Henry Feldman Discusses Advancing Hospital Medicine Globally
November 4, 2015
Henry Feldman, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, talks about his work with hospitalists overseas to help advance their medical informatics, diabetes care, stroke care, and dissemination of “Open Notes” policies. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-cont
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Canada Develops Core Competencies for Hospitalists
November 4, 2015
The Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine is spearheading an initiative called the Core Competencies in Hospitalist Medicine Document Project, which could be used to clarify what the field is, update certification processes, and define its future growth. Neither the Royal College of Physicians an
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For Some Inpatients with Cirrhosis, Liver Transplant Is the only Cure
October 24, 2015
Bilal Hameed, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of California San Francisco, reviewed a wide range of serious and life-threatening medical complications resulting from cirrhosis during the annual UCSF Management of the Hospitalized Patient conf
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AMA’s Christine Sinsky, MD, Explains EHR’s Contribution to Physician Burnout
October 23, 2015
Half of U.S. physicians are experiencing some of the symptoms of burnout, with even higher rates for general internists.
