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Foresight and hard work – not inevitability – shaped HM, CEO says
May 3, 2017
“The future fits what hospital medicine is all about: We’re about value, we’re about creating the new future,” SHM CEO Dr. Laurence Wellikson said during his plenary address Wednesday.
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Conway says health care payment, quality reform to continue
May 3, 2017
Health care will continue its trajectory to higher value, lower costs, and improved quality for patients, keynote speaker Dr. Patrick Conway said Wednesday.
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From idea to abstract, RIV posters highlight novel thinking
May 3, 2017
LAS VEGAS – Always-popular abstract competition positions hospitalists as national leaders.
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VIDEO: Attaining the tools to start your own quality improvement project
May 3, 2017
HM17 session on QI methodologies lays the foundation for hospitalist-led projects.
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Forum focuses on forging Q.I. connections
May 3, 2017
Scrounging for information that could help her with quality improvement (Q.I.) projects, Charmaine Lewis, MD, MPH, the quality director with New Hanover Hospitalists in Wilmington, N.C., said she finds herself reviewing posters at the Annual Meeting and squinting at the images to see whether the...
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Proper UTI diagnosis, treatment relies on cautious approach
May 3, 2017
LAS VEGAS – Prudent use of catheters, cultures, and antibiotics are three keys to proper urinary tract diagnosis and management.
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Hospitalists offer tips on QI projects
May 3, 2017
Anjala Tess, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, asked the audience how many of them had done a quality improvement project that had failed. It was not a time to be bashful: Almost half the hospitalists ...
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Work-life balance is not a ‘thing’ but alignment is
May 3, 2017
We are destined to fail at achieving work-life balance because it does not exist, nor has it ever existed, according to an expert on how people experience time.
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VIDEO: SHM seeks sites to test pediatric transition tool
May 3, 2017
Transitioning pediatric cases from the hospital to the home or community care setting can be tricky. SHM has designed a set of protocols to help,
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Workshop to help hospitalists with patient flow
May 3, 2017
Thursday at HM17, a panel of experts will lead small workshops of audience members on how to put the “go” back in the flow.
