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Leadership 101: Learning to trust
August 15, 2018
A hospitalist medical director encourages early-career hospitalists to remain open to opportunities.
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Childhood obesity linked to severe dental infections
August 14, 2018
Diet is only one factor.
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Crystal ball: The future of hospital medicine
August 14, 2018
Hospital medicine will be functioning very differently in 10 years to respond to today’s challenges.
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Hospitalists target inpatient glycemic control
August 13, 2018
Hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients is an extraordinarily common and growing problem.
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SHM aids national infection prevention and control effort
August 10, 2018
SHM was a key partner in the STRIVE program that sought to enhance infection prevention and control efforts.
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CMS pushes ACOs to take on more risk
August 10, 2018
ACOs that only take on upside risk generally are spending more money and not generating savings, according to CMS Adminstrator Seema Verma.
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Novel cEEG-based scoring system predicts inpatient seizure risk
August 10, 2018
LOS ANGELES – A validation study is currently underway on use of the 2HELPS2B scoring system to predict seizures in acutely ill hospitalized patients.
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Next-gen sputum PCR panel boosts CAP diagnostics
August 10, 2018
NEW ORLEANS – The BioFire film array panel is now before the FDA.
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Larger vegetation size associated with increased risk of embolism and mortality in infective endocarditis
August 10, 2018
In patients with infective endocarditis, does a vegetation size greater than 10 mm impart a greater embolic risk?
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Prophylactic haloperidol does not improve survival in critically ill patients
August 9, 2018
Does prophylactic use of haloperidol in critically ill patients at high risk of delirium improve survival at 28 days?