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Opinion
Hospital Groups Might Do Better Without Daytime Admission Shifts, Morning Meetings
October 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11415" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] You shouldn’t maintain things that do not deliver the value you anticipated when you first put them in place.
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LISTEN NOW: Pediatric Hospital Medicine and the “Right Care” Movement
September 21, 2015
Three pediatric hospitalists – Dr. Ricardo Quiñonez of San Antonio Children’s Hospital, Dr. Shawn Ralston of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and Dr.
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Hospitalists’ Role in Improving Patient Experience: A Baldridge Winner’s Perspective
September 9, 2015
How Texas-based Hill Country Memorial achieved top-level patient experience performance by engaging physicians, using consumer input
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Clinical Care Conundrums Provide Learning Potential for Hospitalists
September 9, 2015
At A Glance Series: Hospital Medicine: Current Concepts Title: Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine Edited by: James C. Pile, Thomas E.
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Hospitalist-Led Quality Initiatives Plentiful at Community Hospitals
September 9, 2015
Community hospitals offer multiple opportunities for hospitalists to become involved in both quality assurance and quality improvement.
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Hospitalists Play Vital Role in Patients’ View of Hospital Stay
September 9, 2015
Special Reports Resident Education, Feedback, Incentives Improve Patient Satisfaction Hospitalists' Role in Improving Patient Experience: A Baldridge Winner's Perspective Cognitive, Emotional Memory Disconnect Impacts Patient Satisfaction Rise of the Chief Patient Experience Officer H
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Cognitive, Emotional Memory Disconnect Impacts Patient Satisfaction
September 8, 2015
Patients judge quality of medical care on emotional memory
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Opinion
Why Hospitalist Morale is Declining and Ways to Improve It
September 2, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11094" align="alignright" width="250"] Some hospitals have begun to resist providing more support, and this translates into stress and lower morale for hospitalists.
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LISTEN NOW: Tales from the Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignette (RIV) Poster Competition
August 13, 2015
Hospitalists who presented RIV posters at HM15 talk about their projects. Dr. Brian Poustinchian worked on a bedside rounding study at Midwestern University in Illinois, and Dr.
News
Maintaining Board Certification Has High Hidden Cost
August 11, 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) maintenance-of-certification (MOC) program could cost $5.7 billion in physicians' time and fees over the next decade, according to a new model study. "We estimate that physicians will spend 33 million hours o
