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News
Building on diversity
December 3, 2018
Dr. Nidhi Goel, president of SHM’s Maryland chapter, is focused on helping early-career hospitalists.
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PIONEER-HF called “practice changing” for acute decompensated heart failure
November 12, 2018
CHICAGO – In-hospital initiation of sacubitril/valsartan safely and significantly reduced heart failure rehospitalizations in the next 8 weeks.
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Readmissions after GI bleeds
October 11, 2018
What is the rate of hospital readmission within 30 days of nonvariceal upper GI hemorrhage, and what are its effects on mortality, morbidity, and health care use in the United States?
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Association between hospice length of stay and health care costs
October 9, 2018
Does increasing the length of hospice stays lead to decreased utilization and costs in patients on maintenance dialysis?
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Treating cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
September 28, 2018
Marijuana use is likely to rise, and with it may arise an increasing incidence of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.
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Opinion
Does supplemental oxygen help COPD patients who have chronic stable moderate hypoxia?
- Adam Wachter, MD;
- And Faye Farber, MD;
- Poonam Sharma, MD, FHM;
- Suchita Shah Sata, MD
August 1, 2018
Oxygen therapy for some COPD patients would not affect overall quality of life, including functional status and mood.
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The rapidly disappearing community pediatric inpatient unit
- Weijen W. Chang, MD, SFHM, FAAP
July 12, 2018
Across the U.S., pediatric inpatient units in community hospitals have failed to even flirt with breaking even.
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New hypertension guidelines would add 15.6 million new diagnoses
July 11, 2018
A new analysis estimates that adopting the 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines would add 15 million Americans to the ranks of the hypertensives, and half of those would be candidates for treatment.Similar increases would occur in other countries, according to study auth...
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A clinical pathway to standardize use of maintenance IV fluids
- Weijen W. Chang, MD, SFHM, FAAP
June 5, 2018
Standardizing the composition of IVF results in increased use of isotonic and potassium-containing fluids.
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Providers’ prior imaging patterns and ownership of equipment are strong predictors of low-value imaging
April 19, 2018
Is there evidence that ownership of imaging equipment, prior ordering history, and ordering behavior in other clinical scenarios are associated with obtaining low-value imaging?