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Five Ways to Enhance Your Hospital Medicine Group’s Efficiency
November 1, 2012
Steps hospitalist groups can take to make hospital care safer, faster, less costly and more satisfying
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Off-Label Use of Antipsychotics for Dementia Patients Discouraged
November 1, 2012
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) encourage hospitalists to reduce deaths from off-label prescription antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients
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Relationship Between Red Blood Cells and Protein Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Young Infants Defined
November 1, 2012
What is the association between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) red blood cell (RBC) counts and protein concentrations in infants younger than 57 days of age?
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How is Acute Pericarditis Diagnosed and Treated?
November 1, 2012
Pericarditis is the most common pericardial disease encountered by hospitalists, and as many as 5% of chest pain cases unattributable to myocardial infarction (MI) are diagnosed with pericarditis
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Medical Coding: Hospice Care vs. Palliative Care
November 1, 2012
Knowing how to appropriately code for each of these costly services will ensure reimbursement
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Hospitalists Urged to Watch for Fungal Meningitis Cases in Midst of National Outbreak
October 31, 2012
Asking patients about exposure to steroid injections critical to determining their best care
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Guidelines Help Slash CLABSI Rate by 40% in the ICU
October 31, 2012
Proper hand hygiene, antimicrobial agents on safety checklist that hospitalists are encouraged to follow
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VIDEO: Checklists Improve Outcomes, Require Care-team Buy-in
October 29, 2012
Quality experts explain how hospitalists can best utilize checklists during at the 7th annual Mt. Sinai Hospital Medicine Symposium in New York City
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Derek C. Angus discuss incorporating hospitalists into a tiered system of ICU care
October 10, 2012
Dr. Angus is chair of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Joaquin Cigarroa, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University, discuss the overlap of cardiology and hospital medicine
October 10, 2012
Dr. Cigarroa is clinical chief of cardiology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland
