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Sneak Peek: The Hospital Leader blog
February 1, 2017
Is QI really a dirty word for residents and physicians?
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Do 30-day readmissions mean anything?
February 1, 2017
New research shows 97% of reasons for readmission are beyond clinician control.
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‘I can handle it’– The state of hospitalist group backup systems
January 31, 2017
It took my hospital medicine group 20 years to implement a formal backup system. Of all the reasons we resisted creating a backup system, foremost was that we did not want to mandate additional work.
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Eight things hospitalists need to know about post-acute care
January 20, 2017
Staffing, reimbursement, and patient populations vary widely. Experts suggest training, and opportunities for improvement.
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Female physicians, lower mortality, lower readmissions: A case study
January 20, 2017
Week in, week out for the past 25 years, I have had a front-row seat to the medical practice of a certain female physician: my wife, Heather. We met when we worked together on the wards during...
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Sneak Peek: Journal of Hospital Medicine
January 20, 2017
Background: Frailty, history of dementia (HoD), and acute confusional states (ACS) are common in older patients admitted to hospital. Objective: To study the association of frailty (≥six points in the Clinical Frailty Scale [CFS]), HoD, and ACS with hospital outcomes, controlling for age, gen...
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Have you Googled yourself lately?
January 6, 2017
With a majority of patients relying on physician ratings, hospitalists might consider countermeasures.
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Nonischemic cardiomyopathy does not benefit from prophylactic ICDs
January 5, 2017
Nonischemic cardiomyopathy does not benefit from prophylactic ICDsClinical question: Do prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reduce long-term mortality in patients with symptomatic nonischemic systolic heart failure (NISHF)?[[{"fid":"175130","view_mode":"medstat_image_flus...
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Everything We Say and Do
December 16, 2016
Read the chart, elevate your patients’ confidence.
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6 Tips for Community Hospitalists Initiating QI Projects
September 9, 2016
Large hospitalist groups expect their physicians to contribute to the QI initiatives of the hospitals they staff
