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    How to Develop a Comprehensive Pediatric Palliative Care Program

    October 5, 2015

    For Ami Doshi, MD, FAAP, a hospitalist at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, the path to establishing a comprehensive pediatric palliative care program began with her realization during medical training that doctors didn’t always adequately address the suffering of young patients with advanced dise

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    Consumer Reports Rates Hospitals on Infection Control, Prevention

    October 5, 2015

    Consumer Reports included for the first time in its national hospital quality ratings a ranking of how well 3,000 hospitals are controlling common deadly infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile. The How Your Hospital Can Make You Sick report

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    Joint Commission Offers Resource to Prevent Hospital Falls

    October 5, 2015

    The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare has released its Targeted Solutions Tool for preventing hospital inpatient falls and falls with injuries.

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    Hospitalists’ Research Analyzes Links between Hyperglycemia, Sleep Deprivation

    October 5, 2015

    An RIV poster presented at HM15 highlights a common problem hospitalists face: morning hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients, including patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes.1 Lead author Regina Heyl DePietro, BA, now a medical student at Stony Brook (N.Y.) School of Medicine, working wit

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    Family Physicians Propose Payment for PCPs’ Hospital Consult Visits

    September 8, 2015

    The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has appealed to some of the nation's largest insurers, asking for coverage of hospital consults conducted by PCPs on behalf of hospitalists for their patients who are in the hospital. "We believe that there is value in paying primary care physician

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    Most Important Elements of End-of-Life Care

    July 29, 2015

    [caption id="attachment_10755" align="alignright" width="275"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] An Australian team conducted a literature review of expected deaths in the hospital—where the majority of deaths in the developed world occur—and identified elements of end-of-life care that ar

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    Highest-Volume Hospitals Linked with Lower Risk for Some Procedures

    July 29, 2015

    An estimated 11,000 deaths could have been prevented between 2010 and 2012, if patients who went to the U.S. hospitals with the lowest patient volumes for five common procedures and conditions had gone instead to the highest-volume hospitals, according to analysis presented in U.S.

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    New Expectations for Value-Based Healthcare

    July 29, 2015

    A new book by three leading hospital medicine advocates for maximizing efficiency and outcomes while managing costs and avoiding waste in healthcare—also known as value-based healthcare—offers a primer filled with practical advice for doctors and other clinicians.1 The hospitalist authors of Underst

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    Joint Commission Leaders Call on Physicians to Embrace Quality Improvement

    July 29, 2015

    In a May 12 JAMA “Viewpoint” article, Mark Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, The Joint Commission’s president and CEO, and David Baker, MD, FACP, MPH, The Joint Commission’s vice president for healthcare quality evaluation, called on American physicians to acquire the necessary skills to take on new resp

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    Hospitalists Choose Quality Metrics Most Important to Them

    July 29, 2015

    [caption id="attachment_10768" align="alignright" width="250"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] Fantasy sports, hospital medicine, and quality metrics.