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Hospitalists’ Role in Improving Patient Experience: A Baldridge Winner’s Perspective
September 9, 2015
How Texas-based Hill Country Memorial achieved top-level patient experience performance by engaging physicians, using consumer input
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Post-Procedural Bridging Therapy for Secondary Prevention of VTE Increases Rate of Bleeding
September 9, 2015
Research Review: Post-Procedural Bridging Therapy and VTE Prevention
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Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy Outcomes for Intraabdominal Infection
September 9, 2015
Research Review: Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection
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Clinical Care Conundrums Provide Learning Potential for Hospitalists
September 9, 2015
At A Glance Series: Hospital Medicine: Current Concepts Title: Clinical Care Conundrums: Challenging Diagnoses in Hospital Medicine Edited by: James C. Pile, Thomas E.
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Hospitalist Elizabeth Cook, MD, Pursues Lifetime of Learning
September 9, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11159" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] Physicians are lifelong learners by definition. But Elizabeth Cook, MD, is still an actual student. Dr.
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Hospitalist-Led Quality Initiatives Plentiful at Community Hospitals
September 9, 2015
Community hospitals offer multiple opportunities for hospitalists to become involved in both quality assurance and quality improvement.
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Physicians Critical of Proposed Changes to Medicare’s Two-Midnight Rule
September 9, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11176" align="alignright" width="300"] Hospitalist Ann Sheehy, MD, (left) meets with legislators after testifying in Washington, D.C., regarding issues surrounding Medicare’s two-midnight rule.[/caption] In the wake of proposed changes to the Centers for Medicare and Medic
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Effects of Peri-Operative Beta-Blockade in Noncardiac Surgery Vary Based on Cardiac Risk Factors
September 9, 2015
Research Review: Peri-Operative Beta-Blockade in Noncardiac Surgery
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Risk for In-Hospital Adverse Cardiac Events Low for Some Patients with Chest Pain
September 9, 2015
Clinical question: Do stable, low-risk patients hospitalized for chest pain after negative ED evaluation experience adverse cardiac events in the hospital? Background: Chest pain results in more than seven million ED visits annually, with a cost of over $11 billion to hospitalize these patients f
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Movers and Shakers in Hospital Medicine September 2015
September 9, 2015
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