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Chronic Kidney Disease Risk with Proton Pump Inhibitors
May 27, 2016
Clinical question: What is the association between proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use and incident chronic kidney disease (CKD)? Background: Medication use may play a potential role in the increasing prevalence of CKD.
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Risk Factors for Pseudomonas, MRSA in Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia
May 27, 2016
Clinical question: What risk factors could predict the likelihood of Pseudomonas and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in patients hospitalized with healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP)? Background: Patients identified with HCAP have an increased risk for multi-drug-resistant p
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Keys to Success on the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine Exam
May 26, 2016
The next sitting for the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine maintenance of certification (MOC) exam is November 10.
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Update on the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
May 26, 2016
In 2014, the Society of Hospital Medicine endorsed the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact as a way to address divergent physician licensing requirements among states.
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Stella Fitzgibbons, MD, FHM, Relishes the Variety, Interactions of Hospitalist Practice
May 25, 2016
Stella Fitzgibbons, MD, FHM, was an engineer for several years after college. But there wasn’t enough working with people for her taste. So she moved into internal medicine.
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Opinion
Things Hospitalists Want Hospital Administrators to Know
May 24, 2016
I think it is really cool that this publication has a series of articles on “What Cardiologists [or infection disease specialists, nephrologists, etc.] Want Hospitalists to Know.” I’m always interested to see which clinical topics made the list and which I’m already reasonably familiar with versus k
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Updated CHEST Guidelines for Antithrombotic Therapy of VTE
May 23, 2016
Clinical question: What are the current recommendations for antithrombotic therapy in various venous thromboembolism (VTE) scenarios? Background: VTE is commonly encountered with a multitude of therapeutic options.
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Tamsulosin Can Be Used as Expulsive Therapy for Some Ureteric Stones
May 23, 2016
Clinical question: Is tamsulosin efficacious as an expulsive therapy for distal ureter stones ≤10 mm in diameter? Background: Ureteric calculi are a common reason for hospital admission, and use of medical expulsive therapy during observation periods for small caliber stones has gained much atten
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New Community-Based Palliative Care Certification to Launch
May 22, 2016
The industry’s first certification for home health and hospices that provide top-caliber community-based palliative care services in the patient’s place of residence is being launched by The Joint Commission. [caption id="attachment_15024" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Credit: Shuttershoc
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Early Follow-up Can Reduce Readmission Rates
May 22, 2016
Heart failure patients who had early follow-up (within seven days of discharge) with general medicine or cardiology providers had a lower risk of being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, according to a study from Kaiser Permanente published in the journal Medical Care. “We found that foll
