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The Great Debate: ED vs Direct Admission
July 5, 2023
Each year, two million children are admitted to the hospital. Drs. Leyenaar and McDaniel debated whether these patients should be admitted through the emergency department (ED) or directly. They...
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Updates on Gastroenterology and Hepatology
July 5, 2023
Dr. Sears’s fun, fast-paced speaking style peppered with her wellness moments (and El Arroyo quotes) always make for an excellent learning experience. Her quick recap on acute pancreatitis...
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Update in Heart Failure Care
July 5, 2023
According to the American College of Cardiology, more than 6 million Americans are living with heart failure—the leading cause of hospital admission in patients aged 65 and older. Hundreds of...
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Ikigai: Finding Joy and Purpose in Medicine
July 5, 2023
Ikigai is a Japanese concept meaning “a reason for being.” It exists at the intersection of passion, mission, profession, and vocation. It’s existed for centuries in Japanese culture and was...
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Evolution of IDTs
July 5, 2023
This informative session was geared towards team-building enthusiasts as well as those just starting to develop hospital-based teams. The speakers introduced the meeting with a case study on Amazing...
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Creative Ways to Expand Academic Opportunities Through Multicenter Networks
July 5, 2023
You wouldn’t think COVID-19 would bring us together, not with masks and social distancing, but that’s exactly what this session was about—how four physicians learned to build multicenter...
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Hospitalists Driving LOS Optimization
July 5, 2023
In our current post-COVID-19 world, few topics come up more frequently in hospitalist meetings than length of stay (LOS). The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted profit margins across the...
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Use of Ketamine in Hospitalized Patients
July 5, 2023
Ketamine, a dissociative agent, is listed on the 21st WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for basic health care systems. It first gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval as an anesthetic...
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The Holy Grail of Survey Design: Achieving a 90% Response Rate
July 5, 2023
In this talk, Ms. Keniston, director of data and analytics in the division of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colo., provided an overview of survey design. Dr. Michtalik,...
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Retaining Physicians is Crucial and Can be Hard—But It’s Possible
July 5, 2023
Employee retention sign and figurines on the memo sticks. As he stood before the audience talking about the high rate at which physicians are leaving health care, and the challenges to retaining...