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Consumer Reports Rates Hospitals on Infection Control, Prevention
October 5, 2015
Consumer Reports included for the first time in its national hospital quality ratings a ranking of how well 3,000 hospitals are controlling common deadly infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile. The How Your Hospital Can Make You Sick report
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Joint Commission Offers Resource to Prevent Hospital Falls
October 5, 2015
The Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare has released its Targeted Solutions Tool for preventing hospital inpatient falls and falls with injuries.
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Hospitalists’ Research Analyzes Links between Hyperglycemia, Sleep Deprivation
October 5, 2015
An RIV poster presented at HM15 highlights a common problem hospitalists face: morning hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients, including patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes.1 Lead author Regina Heyl DePietro, BA, now a medical student at Stony Brook (N.Y.) School of Medicine, working wit
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Opinion
Empathy, Patients, and Caregivers
October 5, 2015
Empathy—the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experiences and emotions: the ability to share someone else’s feelings. —Merriam-Webster By the time I became a third-year medical resident, I had mastered the repertoire of “don’t tread on me” behaviors that seemed essential to
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Expert Witness Primer Offers Tips for Hospitalists
October 5, 2015
Editor’s note: Second in a two-part series on hospitalists as expert witnesses. You have officially decided to take the plunge and become an expert witness, but you have never seen the inside of a courtroom, sat for a deposition, or prepared an expert report.
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Hospitalist Lance Maki, MD, Spends Spare Time Tandem Surfing, Practicing Ballet
October 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11428" align="alignright" width="293"] Dr. Maki playing the part of Herr Drosselmeyer in the Nutcracker at the Cocoa Village (Fla.) Playhouse.Photo courtesy of the Galmont Ballet[/caption] Lance Maki, MD, has accomplished many things in his life.
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Hospitalists Key Partners in Healthcare’s Future, Evolution
October 5, 2015
After a career working for hospitals, I am about to retire as president and CEO of the American Hospital Association (AHA), an organization that represents some 5,000 hospitals and health systems.
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Experimental Antibody May Reduce C. diff Recurrence
October 5, 2015
An experimental antibody developed by Merck & Co Inc was shown in pivotal studies to reduce by about 10 percentage points the risk that infection with Clostridium difficile will recur. In the United States, C.
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Hospitalists’ Code of Conduct Needed for Sick Day Callouts
October 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11419" align="alignright" width="200"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] It is Tuesday morning, and I drag myself out of bed after a very restless night. It is day number three of a syndrome of fatigue, headache, and moderate productive cough.
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Opinion
Hospital Groups Might Do Better Without Daytime Admission Shifts, Morning Meetings
October 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11415" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] You shouldn’t maintain things that do not deliver the value you anticipated when you first put them in place.
