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    Seeing the Future of Hospital Medicine

    December 15, 2016

    Hospitalists touch the lives of patients and shape health systems’ practices and health policy on a national and international scale according to an editorial titled “The Next 20 Years of Hospital Medicine: Continuing to Foster the Mind, Heart, and Soul of Our Field.”1 “This editorial was my refl

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    Promoting the Health of Healthcare Employees

    December 15, 2016

    Provisions in the Affordable Care Act encourage hospitals to work with their communities to improve population health.

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    Tips for Working with Difficult Doctors

    December 9, 2016

    Intimidation, verbal outbursts, refusing to perform tasks—what to do when a nightmare doc is on your team

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    Strategies for Preventing Patient Falls

    December 8, 2016

    Between 700,000 and 1 million people fall each year in U.S. hospitals, and about a third of those result in injuries that add an additional 6.3 days to hospital stays, according to a report from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. Some 11,000 falls are fatal.

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    Helping Patients Quit Smoking

    December 8, 2016

    Inpatient hospitalization can be a key time for patients to quit smoking, according to an abstract called “No More Butts: An Automated System for Inpatient Smoking Cessation Team Consults.”1 “Tobacco smoking continues to be one of the most important public health threats that we face,” says lead

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    Hospitalists See Benefit from Working with ‘Surgicalists’

    December 7, 2016

    The collaboration is widely supported by hospitalists because it brings several advantages, mainly a greater availability of the surgeon for consult.

  • Opinion

    Keeping up with New Payment Models

    December 7, 2016

    For hospitalists, the arrival of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS, originally Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, or PQRI) marks the swerve in reimbursement complexity

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    Observational hospital stays for HF linked to worse outcomes

    December 5, 2016

    NEW ORLEANS – Heart failure patients admitted as inpatients had significantly better outcomes than those admitted for an observational stay.

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    Hospital factors play key role in readmission risk after surgery

    November 28, 2016

    CORONADO, CALIF. – Variation in readmission risk across hospitals following certain surgical procedures is more attributable to hospital factors than to patient characteristics, results from a large analysis demonstrated.

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    Hospitalists Stretched as their Responsibilities Broaden

    November 23, 2016

    A continued broadening of responsibilities continues to stretch even the most well-trained hospitalists