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Society of Hospital Medicine Welcomes New Fellows Class
May 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9221" align="alignright" width="295"] Outgoing SHM President Burke Kealey (center) awards SHM CEO Larry Wellikson (left) and Brad Flansbaum (right) with plaques for their MHM inductions at HM15 in National Harbor, Md.[/caption] Last month, more than 230 hospitalists were i
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Medicare Develops Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model
May 5, 2015
ACO aims to provide more efficient, less costly coordinated care for patients
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Society of Hospital Medicine’s HM15 Meeting Draws Thousands
May 5, 2015
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Cherry trees weren’t the only things that blossomed around Washington last month. SHM’s annual meeting, with roughly 2,500 attendees, featured 100 educational sessions, a day of Congressional lobbying, and plenaries from the “Checklist Doctor” and the Dean of Hospital Medicine.
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Hospitalists Have Stake in Improving Quality, Patient Safety
May 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9297" align="alignright" width="262"] Maureen Bisognano, president and CEO of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, talks about “Leading Transformational Change” at HM15.[/caption] NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Don Lee, MD, MPH, is building what one might call an analog quality
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Hospitalists Raise Healthcare Issues on Capitol Hill
May 5, 2015
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Armed with blue folders chockablock with agendas, talking points, and fact sheets, about 100 hospitalists boarded three charter buses and descended on Capitol Hill last month like a swarm of erudite high schoolers on a class trip. Clad in state-themed ties, suits, and dresses
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Society of Hospital Medicine’s RIV Poster Contest Draws Best, Brightest
May 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9306" align="alignright" width="295"] Donald Tashkin, MD, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., talks about his poster in the RIV poster competition.[/caption] NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—On one end of the cavernous exhibit hall space at HM15 stood Brendan Sullivan, OMS-II, a second-year
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Just-In-Time CPR Training Studied in Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrest
May 5, 2015
Outcomes for JIT CPR training, with or without visual feedback, improves compliance with chest compression rate, depth guidelines during simulated CPA
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Tips for Hospitalists to Understand, Promote Patient Satisfaction
May 5, 2015
Patient satisfaction—“the patient experience”—is given great weight by hospitals and the public alike. Physicians have always aspired to take excellent care of patients. What has changed is that assessments of the patient experience are now being used to measure and report the quality of our care.
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Pediatric Physicians React to Bronchiolitis Clinical Practice Guideline
May 5, 2015
Reading posts from multiple listservs is much like Cold War-era CIA monitoring of Russian phone calls—you have to scan through a lot of unrewarding material to find a nugget of interesting material.
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HM15 Q&A: Why Is It Important That Hospitalists Be Agents of Change?
May 5, 2015
QUESTION: SHM CEO Larry Wellikson, MD, MHM, calls the country’s roughly 48,000 hospitalists “agents of change.” The Hospitalist asked HM15 why is it important that hospitalists be those people? “Because our healthcare system is broken in a lot of ways, and a lot of patients fall through the crack
