Thomas R. Collins
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Caring for transgender inpatients
March 1, 2018
Hospitalists will increasingly find themselves caring for patients who openly claim a gender identity outside the traditional gender categories.
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New tracks bring focus to HM18 program
March 1, 2018
The HM18 schedule provides more flexibility than previous conferences, and attendees have more choices.
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Phoenix Children’s Hospital integrates care from ground up
January 9, 2018
More than 1,000 physicians in the Phoenix metro area are part of a hospital network with incentive-laden contracts for meeting care and wellness goals.
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12 things pharmacists want hospitalists to know
May 9, 2017
From better communications to extra vigilance to high-risk decisions, veteran pharmacists outline areas for improvement.
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Presenters hand out tips for better handoffs
May 4, 2017
LAS VEGAS – I-PASS interventions for handoffs can reduce preventable adverse events by 30%.
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Stump the Professor event entertains, educates
May 3, 2017
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, joked that participating in a “Stump the Professor” event is “like taking an oral exam in front of 300 or 400 people.”Dr. Dhaliwal passed his “exam” with flying colors...
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Foresight and hard work – not inevitability – shaped HM, CEO says
May 3, 2017
“The future fits what hospital medicine is all about: We’re about value, we’re about creating the new future,” SHM CEO Dr. Laurence Wellikson said during his plenary address Wednesday.
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Forum focuses on forging Q.I. connections
May 3, 2017
Scrounging for information that could help her with quality improvement (Q.I.) projects, Charmaine Lewis, MD, MPH, the quality director with New Hanover Hospitalists in Wilmington, N.C., said she finds herself reviewing posters at the Annual Meeting and squinting at the images to see whether the...
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Hospitalists offer tips on QI projects
May 3, 2017
Anjala Tess, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, asked the audience how many of them had done a quality improvement project that had failed. It was not a time to be bashful: Almost half the hospitalists ...
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Workshop to help hospitalists with patient flow
May 3, 2017
Thursday at HM17, a panel of experts will lead small workshops of audience members on how to put the “go” back in the flow.
