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Startup Pharmacy Takes Mail-Order to Next Level, Could Solve Medication Management Issue for Millions
June 10, 2015
It only takes one idea to help change the face of medicine and, recently, Forbes posted an article outlining a small startup pharmacy that could change the way we get our medication.
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LISTEN NOW: Yale hospitalists’ brush with cancer leads to healthcare cost awareness training program
June 9, 2015
ROBERT FOGERTY, MD, MPH, a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Yale University, talks about how his own bout with cancer as a college senior heading to medical school helped influence his I-CARE education initiative, which introduces cost awareness into internal medicine residency pro
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LISTEN NOW: UCSF’s Christopher Moriates, MD, discusses waste-reduction efforts in hospitals
June 9, 2015
CHRISTOPHER MORIATES, MD, assistant clinical professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, talks about the change in focus and priorities needed for medicine to make progress in waste-reduction efforts. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp
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LISTEN NOW: Vladimir Cadet, MPH, discusses alarm fatigue challenges and solutions
June 9, 2015
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From a Near-Catastrophe, I-CARE
June 9, 2015
For Robert Fogerty, MD, MPH, it’s more than just a story. It’s a nightmare that he only narrowly avoided. Now a hospitalist at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., Dr.
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Listen Now: Hospital Medicine Goes Global
June 9, 2015
As the hospital medicine specialty matures in the U.S., HM is establishing itself globally.
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Listen Now: Highlights of the June 2015 Issue of The Hospitalist
June 8, 2015
In this issue of The Hospitalist, ECRI Institute's Vladmir Cadet discusses alarm fatigue, Dr. Christopher Moriates talks about reducing waste by eliminating overtreatment, and Dr.
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The Hospital Leader Blogger Recalls Advocating on Capitol Hill
June 8, 2015
Editor’s note: Hospitalists of all kinds are sharing their perspectives and experiences at SHM’s official blog, The Hospital Leader, including a medical student sharing her new enthusiasm for public advocacy.
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SIRS Criteria Could Identify More Patients with Severe Sepsis
June 8, 2015
Clinical question: Does inclusion of two or more SIRS criteria in the definition of severe sepsis accurately identify patients with higher mortality risk, as compared with patients with infection and organ failure but with fewer than two SIRS criteria? Background: SIRS describes dysregulation of
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Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Use in Older Patients Taking Spironolactone
June 8, 2015
Clinical question: Does trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) increase the risk of sudden death in older patients taking spironolactone? Background: TMP-SMX increases the risk of hyperkalemia when used with spironolactone; however, previous studies have not examined whether the drug interaction
