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News
Principles learned from a successful improvement program can increase compliance and reduce hospital acquired VTEs (HA-VTEs) across multiple institutions
May 12, 2017
Can a single institution’s VTE prophylaxis program be scaled to increase prophylaxis and reduce HA-VTEs across multiple institutions?
News
On 15 years: Celebrating a nocturnist’s career longevity
May 11, 2017
On a regular basis, I talk with hospitalist groups lamenting their inability to find nocturnists willing to work the same number of hours and shifts as their day doctors, for little or no additional compensation.
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Interventions, especially those that are organization-directed, reduce burnout in physicians
May 11, 2017
How efficacious are interventions to reduce burnout in physicians?
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News
Alpha blockers may facilitate the expulsion of larger ureteric stones
May 11, 2017
Are alpha blockers efficacious in patients with ureteric stones?
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PPIs triple heart failure hospitalization risk in atrial fib patients
May 10, 2017
PARIS – Atrial fib patients taking proton pump inhibitors, largely unnecessarily, have a far greater risk of hospitalization for an acute heart failure episode.
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Opinion
Is the doctor in?
May 10, 2017
A recent increase in programs that provide telehospitalists indicates continued growth in coming years.
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News
RIV spotlights HM-focused research in real-time
May 9, 2017
LAS VEGAS – SHM’s annual Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes poster competition has exploded in popularity over the past few years.
News
Hospitalists share strategies to secure, excel at jobs
May 9, 2017
LAS VEGAS – Strategies of upward mobility can apply whether hospitalists are chasing their first job or their fifth.
News
Hospitalists’ EMR frustrations continue: SHM report
May 9, 2017
LAS VEGAS – Hospitalists say they are stymied and frustrated by continuing issues of interoperability, functionality, and access related to their electronic medical record systems.
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News
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.
