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Hospitalists Raise Healthcare Issues on Capitol Hill
May 5, 2015
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Armed with blue folders chockablock with agendas, talking points, and fact sheets, about 100 hospitalists boarded three charter buses and descended on Capitol Hill last month like a swarm of erudite high schoolers on a class trip. Clad in state-themed ties, suits, and dresses
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Society of Hospital Medicine’s RIV Poster Contest Draws Best, Brightest
May 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9306" align="alignright" width="295"] Donald Tashkin, MD, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., talks about his poster in the RIV poster competition.[/caption] NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—On one end of the cavernous exhibit hall space at HM15 stood Brendan Sullivan, OMS-II, a second-year
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Just-In-Time CPR Training Studied in Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrest
May 5, 2015
Outcomes for JIT CPR training, with or without visual feedback, improves compliance with chest compression rate, depth guidelines during simulated CPA
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Tips for Hospitalists to Understand, Promote Patient Satisfaction
May 5, 2015
Patient satisfaction—“the patient experience”—is given great weight by hospitals and the public alike. Physicians have always aspired to take excellent care of patients. What has changed is that assessments of the patient experience are now being used to measure and report the quality of our care.
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Pediatric Physicians React to Bronchiolitis Clinical Practice Guideline
May 5, 2015
Reading posts from multiple listservs is much like Cold War-era CIA monitoring of Russian phone calls—you have to scan through a lot of unrewarding material to find a nugget of interesting material.
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HM15 Q&A: Why Is It Important That Hospitalists Be Agents of Change?
May 5, 2015
QUESTION: SHM CEO Larry Wellikson, MD, MHM, calls the country’s roughly 48,000 hospitalists “agents of change.” The Hospitalist asked HM15 why is it important that hospitalists be those people? “Because our healthcare system is broken in a lot of ways, and a lot of patients fall through the crack
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Mobile Apps Hot Topic for Technology-Minded Hospitalists
May 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9331" align="alignright" width="295"] Instructor Sophia Rodgers, ACNP, (right) works with HM15 attendee David Quach during the “Medical Procedures for the Hospitalist” pre-course.[/caption] NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The conversation about hospitalists and technology can be pret
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Tips for Hospitalists on Finding, Working With Mentor
May 5, 2015
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—What do Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, and Frodo Baggins have in common? Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, SFHM, said each of the big screen superstars had a great mentor. Dr.
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Listen Now: Highlights of the May 2015 Issue of The Hospitalist
May 5, 2015
Highlights from the May 2015 issue of The Hospitalist, featuring new SHM President Dr. Robert Harrington on his mission for the next year, Dr. Win Whitcomb on sharing responsibility for outcomes, and Dr.
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HM15 Q&A: How Will You Make Healthcare Safer?
May 5, 2015
QUESTION: Quality improvement guru Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, senior vice president for patient safety and quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, challenged attendees at HM15 to finish this sentence about how they will make healthcare safer: “I will…” The Hospitalist talked to a few doctors
