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Hospitals Lose $45.9 Billion in Uncompensated Care in 2012
July 1, 2014
American Hospital Association survey ties revenue loss to bad debt, charity care provided to patients who can't pay
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Yogurt May Reduce Clostridium Difficile Infection Rate
July 1, 2014
Incidence of C.diff cut by two-thirds among inpatients on antibiotics who ate yogurt at Pennsylvania-based hospital
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Three Ways to Improve Quality of Patient Care in Your Hospital
July 1, 2014
Society of Hospital Medicine's glycemic control mentored implementation program, Project BOOST, Choosing Wisely competition can help
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Pre-Order Your State of Hospital Medicine Report Now
July 1, 2014
Society of Hospital Medicine's next bi-annual report available September 2014
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Code-H Interactive Tool Helps Hospital Medicine Groups with Coding
July 1, 2014
Interactive program enables physicians to connect dots between clinical documentation, applicable medical CPT codes
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Why Hospitalists Should Heed Choosing Wisely Recommendations
June 1, 2014
Cost-effectiveness campaign should compel physicians to be good stewards of finite healthcare resources
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American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Choosing Wisely Campaign Promotes Evidence-Based Patient Care
June 1, 2014
Specialty societies, consumer groups have identified more than 300 potentially harmful tests, procedures physicians should discuss with patients; more to come throughout 2014
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When to Order Red Blood Cell Transfusion for Patients with Anemia
June 1, 2014
American Association of Blood Banks’ 2012 clinical guidelines update criteria for RBC transfusion therapy
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Risk Stratification Model Predicts Continued Stability in Patients with Pulmonary Embolism
June 1, 2014
Negative troponin, absence of right ventricular dysfunction associated with clinically stable pulmonary embolism
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Accelerated Diagnostic Protocol for Chest Pain Results in Earlier Discharge of Low-Risk Patients
June 1, 2014
Accelerated diagnostic pathway combining TIMI score, EKG, zero- and two-hour troponin levels resulted in twice the proportion of early discharges compared with conventional pathway