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Five-Year Review of Codes Begins
March 1, 2005
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule indicates how much each physician service will be reimbursed by Medicare. Payment rates are a combination of three components: physician work, practice expense, and professional liability (malpractice).
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Other Pediatric Literature of Interest
March 1, 2005
1. Uehara R, Yashiro M, Nakamura Y, Yanagawa H. Clinical features of patients with Kawasaki disease whose parents had the same disease. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.
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Pediatric in the Literature
March 1, 2005
Parents' Priorities and Satisfaction with Acute Pediatric Care; and Evaluation of a Staff-Only Hospitalist System in a Tertiary Care, Academic Children's Hospital
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TIPs Case Report
March 1, 2005
Transverse Myelitis in a Pediatric Patient
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Other Literature of Interest
March 1, 2005
1. Dexter PR, Perkins SM, Mahany KS, Jones K, McDonald CJ. Inpatient computer-based standing orders vs. physician reminders to increase influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2004; 292: 2366-71.
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In the Literature
March 1, 2005
CARP Trial Suggests No Benefi t to Revascularization Before Vascular Surgery; Blood Transfusion May Increase Mortality in Acute Coronary Syndrome; and Cost-effectiveness of Rhythm Versus Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation
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Practice Profile
March 1, 2005
Lehigh Valley Hospitalist Services
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The Quality and Patient Safety Track at the 2005 SHM Annual Meeting
March 1, 2005
Hospital Quality and Patient Safety
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The Informed Hospitalist and the Pharmaceutical Industry
March 1, 2005
Ethics in Hospital Medicine
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Tackling the Underlying Problems of Failure to Rescue
March 1, 2005
A recent HealthGrades Quality Study titled Patient Safety in American Hospitals (July 2004) highlighted the frequency of patients dying from complications that develop while in hospitals.