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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Experts discuss strategies to improve early discharges
October 1, 2011
Emergency Nurses Association President AnnMarie Papa discusses patient partnerships; Ken Simone explains the pressures hospitals face in moving patients and potential incentives to get nurses on board the early-discharge train
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How Hospitalists Can Team with Nursing to Improve Patient Care
September 23, 2011
Respect and trust go a long way with nurses, and improve patient care, satisfaction
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Nocturnists’ Compensation Puzzles Practice Leaders
September 2, 2011
Welcome to “Survey Insights,” a new section devoted to exploring and interpreting information from the survey conducted jointly by SHM and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
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Should You Report a Substance-Abusing Colleague to the State Licensing Board?
September 2, 2011
PRO: Hospitalists’ moral obligation is to protect the patient; CON: Responsible, helpful action doesn’t always mean official involvement
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Purposeful Visits Enhance Hospitalized Seniors’ Quality of Life
September 1, 2011
An abstract presented at HM11, “Purposeful Visits for Hospitalized Elderly Patients,” describes a service at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) in Denver that has shown improvements in participating patients’ mood, agitation, and orientation. The purposeful-visit program was started, says
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Conglomerate HM?
September 1, 2011
As hospitalist model surges, more private hospitalist providers grow ever bigger
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Modest Gains
September 1, 2011
As economy dawdles and hospitalists mature, compensation and productivity benchmarks see minimal growth
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The Bigger Picture
September 1, 2011
Value is more than shortening length of stay
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Opinion
Hospital-Focused Practice
September 1, 2011
As specialists adopt HM model, need for new terminology, cooperation grows
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Dr. Hospitalist
September 1, 2011
Your hospital medicine questions answered
