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News
Pediatric Readmissions Vary Significantly Across Children’s Hospitals
May 1, 2013
Pediatric 30-day readmission rates are lower than in elderly adults; top three conditions distinctly different
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Physician Reviews of Hospital Medicine-Related Research
May 1, 2013
Reviews include BNP-driven fluid management, 30-day readmission patterns, hospitalists’ workload and patient safety, permanent atrial fibrillation, low-dose thrombolysis for PE, and many more
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15 Things Dermatologists Think Hospitalists Need to Know
May 1, 2013
Experts offer tips to assess dermatologic cases
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Bill Seeks to Enhance Patient Access to Post-Hospital Benefit
May 1, 2013
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act allows patients to utilize institutional skilled nursing care
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Telehealth Technology Connects Specialists with First Responders in the Field
May 1, 2013
New initiative aims to improve disaster relief efforts in Midwest
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AMA Report Offers Nine Steps to Help PCPs Prevent Readmissions
May 1, 2013
Coordination between inpatient and outpatient teams is crucial to successful care transitions, research shows
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UCSF Engages Hospitalists to Improve Patient Communication
May 1, 2013
Quality team presented attending faculty with 29 best practices for patient-physician interaction
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SHM Tallies Ratio of Hospital Respondents’ Observation Admissions to Inpatient Admission Encounters
April 2, 2013
Included in the Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2012 State of Hospital Medicine Report, the new metric was added due to increased hospital observation encounters
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Front-Line Hospitalists Fight Against Health Care-Associated Infections (HAIs)
April 2, 2013
Reducing in-patient rates of C. diff, MRSA, and other hospital-acquired infections essential to prevent providers from losing millions in Medicare payments
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UCLA Exec: Patient-Centered Approach Essential to Quality of Hospital Care
April 1, 2013
A national healthcare expert will implore hospitalists to focus first on healing patients in his keynote address at SHM’s annual meeting, HM13
