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‘Everything We Say and Do’: Soliciting Goals from Our Patients and Their Families
March 23, 2016
Editor’s note: “Everything We Say and Do” is an informational series developed by SHM’s Patient Experience Committee to provide readers with thoughtful and actionable communication tactics that have great potential to positively impact patients’ experience of care.
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Continuous Chest Compressions Do Not Improve Outcome Compared to Chest Compressions Interrupted for Ventilation
March 18, 2016
Clinical question: In cardiopulmonary resuscitation, do continuous chest compressions improve survival or neurologic outcome compared to chest compressions interrupted for ventilation? Background: Animal models have demonstrated that interruptions in chest compressions are associated with decreas
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HM16 Session Analysis: Medical, Behavioral Management of Eating Disorders
March 11, 2016
Presenter: Kyung E. Rhee, MD, MSc, MA Summary: Eating disorders (ED) are common and have significant morbidity and mortality. EDs are the third most common psychiatric disorder of adolescents with a prevalence of 0.5-2% for anorexia and 0.9-3% for bulimia; 90% of patients are female.
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Preventing Patient Falls
March 11, 2016
Patient falls are a national issue, creating costs for every player in the healthcare system. “Patient falls negatively impact patient outcomes, hospital costs, and costs for insurance and health systems,” says Jennifer Hefner, PhD, MPH, lead author of “A Falls Wheel in a Large Academic Medical C
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Frontline Teams Needed for Rapidly Changing Healthcare
March 11, 2016
Healthcare is changing rapidly, shifting focus from volume to value, says Jeffrey Glasheen, MD, SFHM, lead author of the abstract “Developing Frontline Teams to Drive Health System Transformation.” To support this transformation, frontline clinical leaders need to be able to build and manage teams a
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HM16 Session Analysis: Stay Calm, Safe During Inpatient Behavioral Emergencies
March 10, 2016
Presenters: David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM, Emily Fingado, MD, FAAP, and Jessica Tomaszewski, MD, FAAP Summary: Patients may engage in violent behaviors that pose a danger to themselves or others.
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Opinion
Revisiting the ‘Key Principles and Characteristics of an Effective Hospital Medicine Group’
March 10, 2016
It has been two years since the “Key Characteristics” was published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.1 The SHM board of directors envisions the Key Characteristics as a tool to improve the performance of hospital medicine groups (HMGs) and “raise the bar” for the specialty. At SHM’s annual mee
Video
WATCH: It’s All in Your Hospitalist Contract
March 9, 2016
Steve Harris, Esq., legal columnist for The Hospitalist, explains the ins and outs of a hospitalist contract.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Maximizing Collaboration With PAs & NPs: Rules, Realities, Reimbursement
March 9, 2016
Presenter: Tricia Marriott, PA-C, MPAS, MJ Health Law Summary: Ms. Marriott brought humor to a detailed #HospMed16 presentation on the rules of reimbursement and Medicare requirements for physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs).
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HM16 Session Analysis: Health Information Technology Controversies
March 9, 2016
Presenter: Julie Hollberg, MD Summary: Dr.
