News
If Delivered Systematically, In-Hospital Smoking Cessation Strategies Are Effective
November 1, 2013
Do programs that systematically provide smoking cessation support to admitted patients improve smoking cessation rates?
News
Rise in Fatal Drug Overdoses and Drug Misuse- or Abuse-Related ED Visits among Women
November 1, 2013
How have opioid pain reliever (OPR) prescriptions affected drug misuse or abuse and drug overdose deaths for women in the past decade?
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“I Cough” Could Reduce Post-Operative Pulmonary Complications among Non-Ventilated Patients
November 1, 2013
Does the use of a standardized suite of post-operative pulmonary care guidelines decrease the incidence of adverse pulmonary outcomes in non-ventilated patients?
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Physicians Feel Responsibility to Address Healthcare Costs
November 1, 2013
What are physicians’ attitudes toward addressing healthcare costs and which strategies do they most enthusiastically support?
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Superficial and Deep/Organ-Space Surgical Site Infections Should Not Be Combined for Quality Measurement
November 1, 2013
What patient-risk factors predict superficial and deep/organ-space surgical site infections (SSIs) following colectomy procedures?
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Fellowships Available to Family Physicians Considering Hospital Medicine Career
November 1, 2013
Clinical principles taught in an HM fellowship are applicable to practicing outpatient adult medicine
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Apixaban Non-Inferior to Standard Therapy to Treat Acute VTE with Favorable Bleeding Risk
November 1, 2013
Is apixaban non-inferior to standard therapy for treating acute VTE?
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Opinion
Multi-Site Hospital Medicine Group Leaders Face Similar Challenges
November 1, 2013
Ensuring cohesion among groups, incorporating common operating principles, encouraging interaction among hospitalists key to managing different locations
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Report on England’s Health System Mirrors Need for Improvement in U.S.
November 1, 2013
Recommended solutions to procedural, systemic problems offer a new way of thinking, acting, living to improve our healthcare industry
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Adding Clopidogrel to Aspirin Prevents Recurrent CVA in a Defined Population
November 1, 2013
Does loading clopidogrel with aspirin reduce recurrent stroke after moderate to high-risk transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke if started within 24 hours of primary event?
