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Joint Commission Leaders Call on Physicians to Embrace Quality Improvement
July 29, 2015
In a May 12 JAMA “Viewpoint” article, Mark Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, The Joint Commission’s president and CEO, and David Baker, MD, FACP, MPH, The Joint Commission’s vice president for healthcare quality evaluation, called on American physicians to acquire the necessary skills to take on new resp
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Hospitalists Choose Quality Metrics Most Important to Them
July 29, 2015
[caption id="attachment_10768" align="alignright" width="250"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] Fantasy sports, hospital medicine, and quality metrics.
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Society of Hospital Medicine Launches Med Student Scholarship Program
July 28, 2015
The Society of Hospital Medicine has launched a new scholarship program to bring the "best and brightest" medical students into the specialty. The Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant program awards eligible students a $5,000 summer stipend for scholarly work on a project related to patient safety,
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PHM15: Inter-Professional Approach to Patient Safety Training
July 27, 2015
Summary: In an era where a majority of the pediatric hospital workforce is just starting to recognize fish bone diagrams, five why questions, root cause analysis, IHI, Lean, six sigma and pareto charts, hospitalists can be daunted as they try to serve as the home for quality improvement and patient
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PHM15: A Closer Look at Quality Indicators, Evaluation Tools
July 24, 2015
Session: Let’s Measure Our Own Performance: Propose and Evaluate Pediatric Hospital Medicine Quality Indicators Summary: During this workshop, a staff of multiple, nationally-recognized quality leaders led a group to review, help develop, and help validate quality measures.
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PHM15: New Quality Measures for Children with Medical Complexity
July 24, 2015
Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2015's keynote speaker, Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH, reviewed quality measures being developed for medically complex patients by the Center of Excellence on Quality of Care Measures for Children with Complex Needs (COE4CCN).
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Medicare Initiatives Improve Hospital Care, Patient Safety
July 6, 2015
[caption id="attachment_10401" align="alignright" width="291"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] As a hospitalist myself, I have seen firsthand the need for a healthcare system that provides better care, spends dollars more wisely, and keeps people healthier.
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Stroke Centers More Common Where Laws Encourage Them
June 26, 2015
State laws have played a big part in boosting the number of hospitals where specialized stroke care is available, a new study shows. During the study, the increase in the number of hospitals certified as primary stroke centers was more than twice as high in states with stroke legislation as in st
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New Tool Improves Harm Detection for Pediatric Inpatients
June 18, 2015
The newly developed Pediatric All-Cause Harm Measurement Tool (PACHMT) improved detection of harms in pediatric inpatients in a recent pilot study. Using the tool, researchers found a rate of 40 harms per 100 patients admitted, and at least one harm in nearly a quarter of the children in the stud
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Risk Stratification Insufficient for Predicting DVT in Hospitalized Patients: JAMA Internal Medicine Study
June 17, 2015
The Wells score is only slightly better than a coin toss for predicting deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in hospitalized patients, researchers have found. "The Wells score risk stratification is not sufficient to rule out DVT or influence management decisions in the inpatient setting," Dr. Patricia C.
