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Empathy for the Rural Hospitalist
August 1, 2023
In residency, we had derisive nicknames for the hospitals in the surrounding rural areas that would frequently send us patients. After we were notified of the transfer, we stayed on edge until the...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2022
July 5, 2023
In 2022, a New York Times headline declared, “Saving kids is bad business in America.”1 Pediatric hospitalists were faced with an unprecedented winter surge due to the “tripledemic” of...
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FAST Program Implementation Guide Success
February 1, 2023
Jefferson Antithrombotic Therapy Team. Front row L to R: Photi Galanis, MD, Julia Westfield, Heather Yenser, CRNP. Back row L to R: Lynda Thomson, PharmD, Dina Orapallo, CRNP, Geno Merli, MD, Tony...
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Experts Offer Guidance on Transitioning Children to Adult Care
December 1, 2022
LAKE BUENA VISTA—Transitioning a child from pediatric to adult care can be a sensitive process fraught with anxiety, and there is fairly little guidance on how to do it well, panelists said here at...
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Does morning discharge really improve hospital throughput?
December 13, 2021
Focus on the actual processes that create bottlenecks preventing throughput.
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Hospitalists helped plan COVID-19 field hospitals
November 18, 2021
Better to plan for too much than not plan for enough, say hospitalists who helped build COVID-19 field hospitals.
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New prescription for loop diuretic improves 30-day heart failure outcomes
October 22, 2021
Does a new prescription for a loop diuretic improve short-term outcomes in patients hospitalized for heart failure?
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Symptoms persist in patients after acute COVID-19
October 21, 2021
What is the duration of symptoms after recovery from acute COVID-19 infection?
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Hotspotting does not reduce readmissions
July 1, 2021
Does the addition of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Provider’s care-transition program prevent hospital readmission in high utilizers of health care services?
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Post–acute kidney injury proteinuria predicts subsequent kidney disease progression
June 25, 2021
Does the degree of proteinuria after an episode of acute kidney injury (AKI) predict subsequent loss of kidney function?
