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Analytics, board support are quality improvement keys
March 16, 2018
Knowing when your interventions are having an effect is a skill essential to QI success.
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Quick Byte: U.S. health care can still innovate
March 13, 2018
The United States health care system has many problems, but it also promotes more innovation than its counterparts in other nations.
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Transporting stroke patients directly to thrombectomy boosts outcomes
March 13, 2018
Modeling of real-world data suggests transporting acute ischemic stroke patients directly to more distant thrombectomy centers outperforms transfer.
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Teleconference is effective in assessing penicillin allergy
March 12, 2018
ORLANDO - Teleconferencing saved money, physician time, and patient exposure to more potent antibiotics.
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Career development: One of many new focal points at HM 2018
March 12, 2018
Because the field of hospital medicine is more than 20 years old, the SHM Annual Conference Committee decided to focus on career development this year.
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Hospital urine screening reduces TB deaths in HIV+ adults
March 12, 2018
Urine screening for TB can lower deaths in HIV-positive hospitalized patients.
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Ticagrelor noninferior to clopidogrel in terms of major bleeds in STEMI
March 11, 2018
New STEMI data answer some but not all questions.
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ODYSSEY Outcomes trial redefines secondary cardiovascular prevention
March 10, 2018
ORLANDO – “I believe this trial is going to change practice.” – Valentin Fuster, MD
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Flu activity continues to decline
March 9, 2018
Influenza-related pediatric deaths dropped below double digits for the first time in 6 weeks.
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Peanut is most prevalent culprit in anaphylaxis PICU admits
March 9, 2018
ORLANDO – Peanut and dairy were main causes of death of all the food-induced cases.