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Video : The SHM Research Committee: Expanding the role and footprint of research in hospital medicine
April 9, 2018
ORLANDO – In a video interview, Stephanie Mueller, MD, SFHM, discusses the scope and importance of the SHM Research Committee.
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SHM presidents: Innovate and avoid complacency
April 9, 2018
ORLANDO — The Society of Hospital Medicine’s immediate past president and current president opened the SHM annual meeting with a call to innovate.
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Hospitalists ‘perfectly poised’ to drive health care reform
April 9, 2018
ORLANDO — HM18 keynote speaker Kate Goodrich, MD, said hospitalists are well positioned to help drive important change to the U.S. health care system.
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Video: SHM President Nasim Afsar seeks an “unrelenting focus on delivering value”
April 8, 2018
ORLANDO – New SHM President Nasim Afsar talks about her goals for the future of hospital medicine.
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Two scoring systems helpful in diagnosing heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
April 8, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Both the 4Ts Score or the HIT Expert Probability (HEP) Score performed well in a real-world study.
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Boosting bedside skills in hands-on session
April 8, 2018
‘Interactive focus’ distinguishes training.
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Practical changes for improving practice management
April 8, 2018
“We can’t effectively use the same approaches that other medical specialties use to ensure we have successful practices.”
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Few acutely ill hospitalized patients receive VTE prophylaxis
April 2, 2018
The results “imply that there is a significantly unmet need for effective VTE prophylaxis in both the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.”
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Protocol helped identify hospitalized children at risk for VTE
March 30, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Children with hospital-acquired VTE tended to be more medically complex, a single-center study showed.
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Warfarin dose capping avoided supratherapeutic INRs in hospitalized elderly
March 30, 2018
SAN DIEGO – Limiting the initial dose of warfarin to 2.5 mg or less for hospitalized patients aged 85 years and older led to significant reductions in supratherapeutic INRs.
