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    7 Types of Jargon Overuse

    September 23, 2022

    PHM Session: Say What? Diagnosing and Treating the 7 types of Jargon Overuse Presenters: Mike Pitt, MD, and Jordan Marmet, MD, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis,...

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    STI Guideline Updates for Pediatric Hospitalists

    September 23, 2022

    PHM Session: 2021 Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Guideline Updates: What the Pediatric Hospitalist Needs to Know Presenters: Jason Zucker, MD, Columbia University, New York, and Candice...

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    Using SMART Regimens in PHM

    September 23, 2022

    PHM Session: Get SMART: Implementation of updated asthma guidelines for pediatric hospitalists Presenters: Alexander Hogan, MD, MS, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, Conn., Kathryn...

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    Refuting Long-held Pediatric Clinical Tenets

    September 23, 2022

    PHM Session: Um, Dr. Dancel, We Don’t Do That Anymore Presenters: Jennifer Fuchs, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill, N.C., Steve Weinberg, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill,...

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    Pediatric Pain Evaluation, Physiology, and Treatment

    September 23, 2022

    PHM Session: The Agony and the Ecstasy: Pain Assessment and Management in the Clinical Setting Presenter: David Casavant, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass. Dr. David Casavant...

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    Unintended Consequences of the PHM Board Certification Process

    August 1, 2022

    Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) was designated a subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties in 2016, with certification through the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). While this...

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    High-Value Care in Pediatrics: Things We Do for No Reason

    July 1, 2022

    Dr. Tantoco Presenter: Mike Tchou, MD, MSc, Children’s Hospital of Colorado/University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo. Dr. Tchou began by defining value as an equation, with...

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    Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2021

    July 1, 2022

    Presenters and Summary authors: Matthew Shapiro, MD, MS, FAAP, Shuvani Sanyal, MD  Dr. Sanyal Dr. Shapiro As pediatric hospitalists, our organ is the hospital. We care for a wide variety of...

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    Guardianship issues lead to unnecessarily prolonged hospitalizations

    February 3, 2022

    Minors requiring guardianship are sometimes hospitalized for much longer than medically necessary because of placement issues. The same can happen for incapacitated adults who require some form of...

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    The hidden pandemic

    January 7, 2022

    Dr. Sekaran In the eyes of Anand Sekaran, MD, division head of hospital medicine, and medical director of inpatient services at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., it’s...