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Two Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Share Their Strategies for Success
April 1, 2013
Pairing with a multispecialty private-practice group and using nurse practitioners for at-home patient visits are tactics used by successful ACOs
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Gain Popularity with Physicians in Wake of Added Incentives, Revised Federal Rules
April 1, 2013
Health care providers cautiously optimistic that ACO’s shared responsibility model can cure some industry ills
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20 Things Psychiatrists Think Hospitalists Need to Know
April 1, 2013
Psychiatrists offer tips about when, and how, hospitalists should seek mental health care for their patients
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Keep an Eye Out for Factitious Disorders
April 1, 2013
Room searches, probing conversations offer hospitalists and other providers vital clues
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: The Medical Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Spotlights Hospitalist Communication, Attention to Discharge Details
April 1, 2013
Listen to bonus excerpts of our interview with Ken Duckworth, medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
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Conservative Management of Pediatric Pleural Empyema Results in Good Long-Term Outcomes
April 1, 2013
Better understanding of parental preferences will become critical to making the right decision for each patient
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ITL: Physician Reviews of HM-Relevant Research
April 1, 2013
Value of routine preoperative urine screening assessed; Impact of hospitalist-led intermediate care on patient survival; Risks of blood transfusion to treat upper GI bleeding; Low-dose steroids and increased mortality in sepsis; Reduced length of stay and hospital readmission rates; Restrictive blood transfusion strategies better for acute myocardial infarction; Trends in GI illnesses and their associated costs; Apixaban as a stand-alone anticoagulant in patients with VTE; Guidelines for upper endoscopy use in gastroesophageal reflux disease
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How Should a Patient with Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain be Treated?
April 1, 2013
Treatment includes normalizing the toxic systemic effects of the drug and minimizing the direct ischemic damage to the myocardium
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Clarifying the Role of Hospitalists Focused on Family Medicine in the ICU
April 1, 2013
Lack of intensivist certification pathways for physicians results in shortage of ICU docs
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Record Number of Physicians Pass Hospice and Palliative Medicine Exam
April 1, 2013
A total of 3212 mid-career physicians certified in October 2012
