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Can Low-Risk Patients with VTE Be Discharged from ED on Rivaroxabon?
November 4, 2015
Clinical question: Can a low-risk patient newly diagnosed with VTE in the ED be immediately discharged home on a direct factor Xa inhibitor? Background: Studies have shown that rivaroxaban incurs a risk of 2.1% in VTE recurrence and of 9.4% in clinically relevant major and non-major bleeding (in
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Resources Often Lacking in Hospitalists’ Routines
November 4, 2015
The best antibiotic stewardship programs weave improvements into the routines of hospitalists. But at the end of the day, developing and overseeing these important programs does require some level of time and money.
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SHM Holding Roundtable for Hospitalist Practice Administrators
November 4, 2015
Are you a hospitalist practice administrator in a new role? SHM can help—and the upcoming roundtable discussion presented by Glenn Appelbaum, CHE, CPA, and Heather Fordyce, BS, on December 9 can help you find the resources to enable you to manage your practice effectively and efficiently.
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Medicare’s Readmission Reduction Program Cuts $420M to U.S. Hospitals This Year
November 4, 2015
It’s that time of year again … the time when hospitals around the country are being notified of their 30-day readmission penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Opinion
Eliminations Hospitalist Groups Should Consider
November 4, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11771" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] Editor’s note: Second in a continuing series of articles exploring ways hospitalist groups can cut back. In last month’s column, I made the case that most hospitalist groups should think abo
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Which Hospitalist Should Bill for Inpatient Stays with Multiple Providers?
November 4, 2015
[caption id="attachment_8354" align="alignleft" width="100"] amane kaneko[/caption] During a facility stay, a patient could be attended to by more than one hospitalist.
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Listen Now: Highlights of the November 2015 issue of The Hospitalist
November 4, 2015
In this issue of The Hospitalist, Dr. Henry Feldman and Dr. Peter Jamieson cover the growth of the hospitalist movement internationally, and Dr.
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Hospital Medicine Flourishing Around the World
November 4, 2015
Since last September, Anand Kartha, MD, MS, has headed the hospital medicine (HM) program at 600-bed Hamad General Hospital, the flagship facility for eight-hospital Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar, a small nation of 1.8 million people located on the northeast corner of the Arabian Peninsul
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Society of Hospital Medicine Launches Antimicrobial Stewardship Campaign
November 4, 2015
In 2006, infectious disease specialists and pharmacists at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore took a look at the pharmacy budget and were jarred by the numbers. “The proportion of the pharmacy budget that was antimicrobials was much larger than we would expect,” says Jonathan Zenil
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Listen Now: Dr. Peter Jamieson Discusses Evolution of Hospital Medicine in Canada
November 4, 2015
Peter Jamieson, MD, medical director of Foothills Medical Center in Calgary, Alberta, talks about hospital medicine's evolution Canada away from the term “hospitalist” and toward the establishment and development of a core curriculum and credential of added competency in hospital medicine. [audi
