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Healthcare Cost Containment Not High Priority for Most Physicians
September 11, 2013
Many pin responsibility on lawyers, insurers, hospitals, and health systems, JAMA survey shows
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Mentored Implementation Program Highlights Need for Improved Medication Reconciliation
September 6, 2013
Thorough, vetted medication history on admission is key to smooth hospital stay, discharge
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Inside Hospitalists’ Evolving Scope of Practice
September 1, 2013
Medical subspecialty comanagement, primary clinical care for rapid-response teams, and nighttime patient coverage on expanded list of hospitalist services
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Actors Help Health-Care Providers Develop Better Patient Communication Skills
September 1, 2013
Hospitalists learn how to give bad medical news to patients and families through role-playing with actors portraying patients
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Multiple Approaches to Combat High Hospital Patient Census
September 1, 2013
A production-based pay structure, salary bonuses and incentives, and integration of advanced-practice providers can be effective
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Continuing Medical Education Made Easy
September 1, 2013
SHM’s new learning portal lets hospitalists log in, learn, track CME credits online
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Reviews of Research on Health-Care Acquired Infections, Glucocorticoid Therapy in COPD, and Blood-Pressure Lowering in Intracerebral Hemorrhages
September 1, 2013
Also reviewed this month: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), prophylactic penicillin and recurrent leg cellulitis, and universal ICU decolonization and MRSA, infection rates
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Among Physicians, 59% Would Not Recommend a Medical Career
September 1, 2013
Job dissatisfaction, career burn-out listed by physicians as top reasons they wouldn’t steer young people into medicine
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Hospital Readmission Rate 31.9% for Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia
September 1, 2013
Diagnosis has the highest 30-day readmission rate according to the federal Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
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What Are the Indications for a Blood Transfusion?
September 1, 2013
Practice guidelines support clinical judgment, but growing evidence suggests the threshold for blood transfusions should be a hemoglobin level of 7-8 g/dl
