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Billing for a Critically Ill Patient
July 1, 2024
A 64-year-old woman with a history of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia one day ago and is being started on intravenous (IV)...
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Let’s Get Physical: Exam Maneuvers that Can Improve Your Clinical Judgment
July 1, 2024
In this era where point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) may make the stethoscope obsolete, Dr. Daniel D. Dressler, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, started his...
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Challenging Anticoagulation Scenarios: How to Have Smooth Sailing through Choppy Waters
July 1, 2024
Keeping abreast of updates in anticoagulation guidelines is important for physicians to provide optimal patient care. Multiple changes to recommendations for anticoagulation have been made in the...
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Kill the Mortality—Building Successful Inpatient Mortality Reduction Programs in Academic and Rural Health Systems
July 1, 2024
The session began with a clear statement of its objectives, focusing on how quality programs view mortality, the methodology behind it, approaches to reducing mortality, and the impact hospitalists...
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Opioid Use Disorders in Adolescents
July 1, 2024
Dr. Trope, a pediatric hospitalist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., and an affiliated clinical instructor at the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2023
July 1, 2024
The year 2023 brought us waves of advances in technology, increasing vaccine hesitancy, an ongoing behavioral health crisis, and civil unrest overseas which continues to echo throughout the...
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The Kinetic Life: Your Power to M.O.V.E. Through Change with Intention
July 1, 2024
Dr. Green “One day you will share the story of where you are today and how you overcame it, and it will become someone else’s survival guide.” Brene Brown (via Parul Somani) Parul Somani...
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Pneumonia: Updates, Best Practices, and Controversies
July 1, 2024
In this clinically focused session, Dr. Joanna M Bonsall, associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine and hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, discussed portions of the...
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2024 Converge Shark Tank
July 1, 2024
Dr. Gundareddy Shark Tank was an innovative session where hospitalists competed in the space of innovation to improve care for their patients. The winner received a cool trophy, bragging rights,...
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Put Me in, Coach! The Essentials of Physician Coaching in Healthcare
July 1, 2024
“We’re not going to bore you!” Dr. Stephany, director of physician-provider organization support, clinical academic departments, and the leadership center for physicians at Children’s Mercy...