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    Working Towards Fewer Delirium Cases

    August 25, 2016

    Delirium may be preventable among the elderly population, according to an abstract

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    Intervention Decreases Urinary Tract Infections from Catheters

    August 18, 2016

    Hospitalists can impact CAUTI rates by using a simple bundle of interventions

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    Reducing Drug Expenditure with Computerized Alerts

    June 26, 2016

    Hospitalists face ever-increasing pressure to reduce drug expenditures without compromising the quality of care provided to patients, and as a consequence, are creating new ways to approach the issue.

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    Tips Toward Better Clinical Summaries

    June 26, 2016

    “I recently discharged a complex patient from the hospital, and I was shocked to see the poor quality of his clinical summary,” says Erin Sarzynski, MD, MS, of Michigan State University’s Department of Family Medicine.

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    New Framework for Quality Improvement

    June 19, 2016

    Improving healthcare means taking an efficacious intervention from one setting and effectively implementing it somewhere else. [caption id="attachment_15449" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Credit: Shuttershock.com[/caption] “It is this key element of adapting what works to new settings

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    Applying Military Principles to HM Leadership

    June 19, 2016

    Hospitalists are more than doctors—they are also leaders in their organizations, which is why a new book by retired Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling is relevant to what they do every day.

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    Barriers to Achieving High Reliability

    May 10, 2016

    The conceptual models being used in healthcare’s efforts to achieve high reliability may have weaknesses, according to Marc T. Edwards, MD, MBA, author of “An Organizational Learning Framework for Patient Safety,” published in the American Journal of Medical Quality.

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    Benefits of Hospital-Wide Mortality Reviews

    May 9, 2016

    Death is a subject everyone cares about—but we could talk about it more, especially in hospitals, where a lot of people die.

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    Tackling the Readmissions Problem

    May 7, 2016

    Virtually every hospital system in the country deals with the challenge of readmissions, especially 30-day readmissions, and it’s only getting worse.

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    Benefits of Earlier Palliative Care

    May 3, 2016

    Offering palliative care early to hospitalized patients with multiple serious conditions could improve care and help reduce healthcare spending, according to “Palliative Care Teams’ Cost-Saving Effect Is Larger for Cancer Patients with Higher Numbers of Comorbidities,” published in Health Affairs.