News
Ways Hospitalists Can Support Advocacy for Patients, Hospital Medicine
March 3, 2015
There are so many ways to advocate for your patients, for your profession, for the future of hospital medicine. The easiest way? Getting involved. We know how important it is to you that your patients receive the best care possible.
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How Academic Hospitalists Can Balance Teaching, Nonteaching Roles
March 3, 2015
As a group director at a growing, university-based hospitalist program, I often interview aspiring academic hospitalists. Inevitably, the conversation turns to a coveted aspect of the job. I’m not talking about the salary.
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News
Greater Transparency for Financial Information in Healthcare Will Prompt Questions from Patients
March 3, 2015
The movement toward greater transparency of financial information in healthcare is providing patients with access to data that might affect their healthcare decisions.
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Clinical Images Capture Hospitalists’ Daily Rounds
March 3, 2015
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fourth in an occasional series of reviews of the Hospital Medicine: Current Concepts series by members of Team Hospitalist. [caption id="attachment_8317" align="alignright" width="300"] Left: Image of patient with rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis, case number 48.Right: Image of
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De-Escalation Training Prepares Hospitalists to Calm Agitated Patients
March 3, 2015
If a patient shows signs of agitation, Aaron Gottesman, MD, SFHM, says the best way to handle it is to stay calm. It may sound simple, but, in the heat of the moment, people tend to become defensive and on guard rather than acting composed and sympathetic.
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Hospitalists Should Lead Training, Preparedness for Hospital Violence Prevention
March 3, 2015
On Jan. 20, a 44-year old surgeon was shot and killed in the middle of the day at one of the country’s top hospitals.
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Opinion
Geographic Rounding of Hospital Nurses Challenges Unit-Based Theory
March 3, 2015
Nurses, of course, have always been assigned by unit—that is, geographically. So it should come as no surprise that searching “unit-based” at the-hospitalist.org returns many articles about assigning hospitalists geographically, but not nurses, partly because few would consider it a new idea.
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News
Billing for Hospital Admission, Discharge in Same 24-Hour Period
March 3, 2015
Should the admitting physician or the discharge physician bill the CPT code (99234-99236) for a patient who is admitted and discharged in the same 24-hour period? —Charlette Dr.
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Hospital Violence Hits Home
March 3, 2015
Hospitalists could hardly be faulted for wondering: Am I safe?
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Hospitalists Try To Reclaim Lead Role in Bedside Procedures
March 3, 2015
[caption id="attachment_8227" align="alignright" width="295"] Instructor Joshua D.
