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HM16 AUDIO: Jordan Romano Discusses Getting Published, Hospitalist Burnout
April 11, 2016
Jordan Romano, DO, a hospitalist at Massachusetts General Hospital, talks about lessons gleaned at HM16 on the importance of taking small steps toward your goals of getting published and how burnout can be relative. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HM16-romano
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Annual Meeting Highlights Latest Research, Project Completion
April 11, 2016
One of the things that Jennifer Feighner, MD, cheerfully came away with at HM16 was how to better complete a task that is distinctly uncheerful but also important to any high-performing hospital: how to collect the data of the dead. The quality improvement session “Reducing Inpatient Mortality: A
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Study Suggests that Elderly Patients with Hip Fractures get Better Care at Smaller Hospitals
April 11, 2016
(Reuters Health) - Elderly patients with hip fractures may get better care at smaller hospitals, a new study suggests.
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Policy Experts Urge Hospitalists to Get Involved, Share Knowledge
April 10, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Think beyond your four walls, speakers told hospitalists at HM16.
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Society of Hospital Medicine Awards 3 Master in Hospital Medicine Designation
April 10, 2016
SAN DIEGO—Add three more names to the short list of individuals who’ve reached the peak of the specialty. The Master in Hospital Medicine (MHM) designation, introduced in 2010, honors “highly accomplished individuals” who have made major contributions to HM.
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Health Information Technology Ramps Up Its Presence
April 9, 2016
SAN DIEGO — To talk to Nancy Allen, MD, a locum tenens physician who works in Portland, Me., is to get a sense of that head-spinning sensation you can have in the digital age. For hospitalists, it’s an endless stream of patients, diagnoses, documentation, and performance metrics.
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New Ideas Showcased in Research at RIV Competition
April 9, 2016
Standing adjacent Poster 391 in a loud, crowded meeting hall, Monika Wells, MD, MPH, a resident in internal medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, chatted with a colleague.
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WATCH: Why Teaching Hospital Medicine Can Be a Rewarding Career
April 8, 2016
Two academic hospitalists talk about why they teach, what they're learning from their students, and what they see as the future of hospital medicine.
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Postoperative Clostridium Difficile Infection Associated with Number of Antibiotics, Surgical Procedure Complexity
April 8, 2016
Clinical question: What are the factors that increase risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in postoperative patients? Background: CDI has become an important infectious etiology for morbidity, lengthy and costly hospital admissions, and mortality.
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Most Postoperative Readmissions Due to Patient Factors
April 8, 2016
Clinical question: What is the etiology of 30-day readmissions in postoperative patients? Background: As the focus of healthcare changes to a quality-focused model, readmissions impact physicians, reimbursements, and patients.
