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Study: Hospitalists Can Drive Quality Improvement, Cut Costs
December 2, 2015
A quality improvement (QI) initiative can start with a single hospitalist, says Adam H. Corson, MD, a hospitalist at Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center.
In a study presented at SHM's annual meeting, Dr.
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Mid-Atlantic Hospital Medicine Symposium Delivers Practice Pearls for Hospitalists
December 2, 2015
What do Clostridium difficile, Staphylococcus aureus, and acute pulmonary embolism have in common?
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Healthcare Policies Affecting Hospitalists, Hospitalized Patients Advance in 2015
December 1, 2015
Laws and regulations regularly impact hospitalists and hospitalized patients, which is why SHM’s Advocacy Department and Public Policy Committee (PPC) work on behalf of SHM membership, the hospital medicine movement, and its patients.
This year has seen significant positive movement within severa
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Top Trends at Society of Hospital Medicine for 2016
December 1, 2015
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Ready or not, 2016 is almost here, and SHM is gearing up for another year jam packed with exciting, enriching opportunities for hospitalists and their teams.
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Tips for Hospitalists on Improving Diagnostic Skills
- Deepti Rao, MD;
- Joseph Rencic, MD;
- Justin Roesch, MD;
- Patrick Rendon, MD
November 4, 2015
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A 67-year-old man presents to the hospital with persistent, subjective fevers and malaise for one month, subacute onset of dyspnea, and nonproductive cough for the preceding six days. The patient is a nonsmoker, denies sick contacts, and has had no foreign travel.
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Hospitalist David Weidig, MD, Witnessed the Field Grow During His Decades-long Career
November 4, 2015
David Weidig, MD, was there at the beginning. He was one of the first internal medicine-trained physicians to adopt hospital-based practice. He was one of the first to proudly call himself a hospitalist.
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The Lone Hospitalist in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan
November 4, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11766" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: www.nytimes.comA screenshot of the New York Times website featuring Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff’s article "The Worst Atrocity You’ve Never Heard Of,” which chronicles Dr.
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When Should Hospitalists Order Continuous Cardiac Monitoring?
- Keith Davis, MD;
- Kirsten Tolstrup, MD;
- Mary Lacy, MD;
- Patrick Rendon, MD
November 4, 2015
Case
Two patients on continuous cardiac monitoring (CCM) are admitted to the hospital. One is a 56-year-old man with hemodynamically stable sepsis secondary to pneumonia. There is no sign of arrhythmia on initial evaluation.
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Society of Hospital Medicine Launches Antimicrobial Stewardship Campaign
November 4, 2015
In 2006, infectious disease specialists and pharmacists at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore took a look at the pharmacy budget and were jarred by the numbers.
“The proportion of the pharmacy budget that was antimicrobials was much larger than we would expect,” says Jonathan Zenil
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Hospital Medicine Flourishing Around the World
November 4, 2015
Since last September, Anand Kartha, MD, MS, has headed the hospital medicine (HM) program at 600-bed Hamad General Hospital, the flagship facility for eight-hospital Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar, a small nation of 1.8 million people located on the northeast corner of the Arabian Peninsul