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Society of Hospital Medicine Awards 3 Master in Hospital Medicine Designation
April 10, 2016
SAN DIEGO—Add three more names to the short list of individuals who’ve reached the peak of the specialty. The Master in Hospital Medicine (MHM) designation, introduced in 2010, honors “highly accomplished individuals” who have made major contributions to HM.
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Health Information Technology Ramps Up Its Presence
April 9, 2016
SAN DIEGO — To talk to Nancy Allen, MD, a locum tenens physician who works in Portland, Me., is to get a sense of that head-spinning sensation you can have in the digital age. For hospitalists, it’s an endless stream of patients, diagnoses, documentation, and performance metrics.
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New Ideas Showcased in Research at RIV Competition
April 9, 2016
Standing adjacent Poster 391 in a loud, crowded meeting hall, Monika Wells, MD, MPH, a resident in internal medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, chatted with a colleague.
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Postoperative Clostridium Difficile Infection Associated with Number of Antibiotics, Surgical Procedure Complexity
April 8, 2016
Clinical question: What are the factors that increase risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in postoperative patients? Background: CDI has become an important infectious etiology for morbidity, lengthy and costly hospital admissions, and mortality.
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Most Postoperative Readmissions Due to Patient Factors
April 8, 2016
Clinical question: What is the etiology of 30-day readmissions in postoperative patients? Background: As the focus of healthcare changes to a quality-focused model, readmissions impact physicians, reimbursements, and patients.
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U.S. Hospitals Should Prepare for “ransomeware” Attacks by Cyber Criminals
April 8, 2016
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Take Advantage of SHM’s Volunteer Experiences
April 7, 2016
Are you interested in growing professionally and getting involved in work that you are excited about with colleagues across the country? You are in the driver’s seat as a hospitalist.
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Administrators Share Strategies for High-Performing Hospitalist Groups at HM16
April 7, 2016
In November, Barbara Weisenbach took a new job as practice manager for the hospitalist group at Northwest Hospital in Seattle. She’s an experienced administrator but as for hospital medicine, not so much.
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UK Report Shows Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance in Pediatric Urinary Tract Infection
April 7, 2016
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The prevalence of antibiotic resistance in pediatric urinary tract infection (UTI) has reached such high levels in many countries that existing empiric therapies may no longer be effective, researchers from UK report." Prevalence of resistance to commonly prescribed an
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New Sepsis Definition, Bedside Screening to Identify Patients at High-Mortality Risk
April 6, 2016
Clinical question: What are the best criteria to identify sepsis and septic shock? Bottom line: An international task force of experts has updated the definitions of sepsis and septic shock and created a new bedside scoring tool to identify patients with suspected infection who may be at high ris
