News
Ask-Tell-Ask: Simple Technique Can Help Hospitalists Communicate Difficult Messages
September 5, 2012
Technique addresses the patient’s perspective, information that needs to be delivered, response to the patient’s emotions, and recommendations by the professional
News
Hospitalists Play Integral Roles in HHS-Funded Innovation Projects
September 5, 2012
Three unique approaches offer additional layers of patient support, reduce readmissions and costs
News
Local Solutions Spark Readmission Reductions
August 29, 2012
Pass the "coaching baton" across care settings, care transition program co-chair says
News
Hospitalists Can Help SHM Improve Health IT Systems
August 29, 2012
The Society of Hospital Medicine believes that its members can be involved in the research to answer many of the important questions that are unresolved in HIT.
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News
How to Bridge Common Patient-Hospitalist Communication Gaps
August 29, 2012
When done effectively, communication can help hospitalists improve their patients’ sense of well-being and reinforce their adherence to medical treatments post-discharge
News
Interactive Quality, Leadership Lessons for Residents
August 29, 2012
Medical trainees eager and willing to learn skills that will be required from hospitalists in a reformed healthcare system
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Opinion
Win Whitcomb: Inflexible, Big-Box EHRs Endanger the QI Movement
August 29, 2012
The challenges current EHRs present to QI efforts and what features EHRs need to incorporate to better serve the needs of patients and clinicians
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News
Shaun Frost: High-Value Healthcare
August 29, 2012
Applying accountability principles to improve our care-delivery system
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News
Establish Rules of Engagement before Covering Ortho Inpatients
August 29, 2012
A provider wants to use adult hospitalists for coverage of inpatient orthopedic surgery patients. Is this acceptable practice?
News
Enhanced Provider-Patient Communication Improves Discharge Process
August 28, 2012
Teach-back can help effectively communicate the key teaching points hospitalized patients and their caregivers should take home
