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Choosing Wisely in Hospital Medicine: Accomplishments and What the Future Holds
April 1, 2015
John Bulger, DO, MBA reviewed the components of the Choosing Wisely campaign and SHM’s recommendations in an era where providing high value cost-conscious care is key to optimizing the health of our patients.
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Striving For Optimal Care: Updates in Quality, Value, and Patient Satisfaction
March 31, 2015
In this session, Drs. Michelle Mourad and Christopher Moriates took a systematic approach to answer quality questions that we commonly encounter in our hospitalist practice.
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WATCH: Hospital Medicine 2015 Highlights Day Three
March 31, 2015
Day Three highlights from HM15, the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM) annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., just outside Washington, D.C.
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WATCH: Hospital Medicine 2015 Highlights – Day Two
March 30, 2015
Day Two highlights from HM15, the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM) annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., just outside Washington, D.C.
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WATCH: Hospital Medicine 2015 Highlights — Day 1
March 29, 2015
Day One highlights from HM15, the Society of Hospital Medicine's (SHM) annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., just outside Washington, D.C.
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Hospitalist Continuity Doesn’t Affect Adverse Events among Inpatients
March 24, 2015
Hospitalist continuity does not appear to be associated with the incidence of adverse events (AEs), according to a new report in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Authors used two methods to measure continuity: the Number of Physicians Index (NPI) represented the total number of unique hospitalists
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Perioperative Hyperglycemia Increases Risk of Poor Outcomes in Nondiabetics
March 24, 2015
Clinical question: How does perioperative hyperglycemia affect the risk of adverse events in diabetic patients compared to nondiabetic patients? Background: Perioperative hyperglycemia is associated with increased rates of infection, myocardial infarction, stroke, and death.
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LISTEN NOW: My iPad Went to Medical School
March 17, 2015
Mobile devices put information in the palm of your hand. For hospitalists, this presents real opportunities to engage patients, improve care, and streamline hospital workflows. Two hospitalists who were early adopters of mobile tech in their practices, Dr.
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Leadership 101: Basic skills for early-career hospitalists
March 10, 2015
There are many practical skills you should hone if you are interested in becoming a team leader in your hospital medicine group—among them the ability to engage others, to effectively conduct an efficient meeting, and to meet project deadlines.
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Federal Program to Cut Hospital Readmissions Turns Out Modest Results
March 10, 2015
A new report has found that only a small number of groups included in a government-funded experiment to cut Medicare readmissions actually produced results.
