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Medicare Funding May Become Enormous Burden for Generations of Future Taxpayers
February 2, 2013
Advances in immunizations, cancer prevention, and reducing the risks of coronary heart disease have helped seniors live beyond America's means to provide for their healthcare
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Southern Hospital Medicine Conference Drives Home the Value of Hospitalists
February 2, 2013
Hospital medicine leaders discuss the need to develop standardized processes among clinicians to reduce errors, lower costs of hospitalized patient care
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Tips to Help Hospital Medicine Group Leaders Know When to Grow Their Service
February 2, 2013
Networking with other hospital medicine group leaders, staying flexible, and using benchmark data can help pinpoint the right time to expand
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Fundamentals of Highly Reliable Organizations Could Benefit Hospitalists
February 2, 2013
Hospitalists can have a huge impact on organizational efficacy by being mindful of avoiding on-the-job failures
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Hospital Medicine Experts Outline Criteria To Consider Before Growing Your Group
February 2, 2013
Quantifying hospital data, examining physician and administrative buy-in, and conducting market analysis are critical to making difficult expansion decisions
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New Anticoagulants Offer Promise, but Obstacles Remain
February 2, 2013
An overview of the pros and cons of the recently introduced anticoagulant drugs dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban
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Clinical Shorts
February 2, 2013
INFLUENZA VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS VARIES BY AGE Case-control study of the 2010-2011 influenza vaccine found overall vaccine effectiveness to be 60%, ranging from 69% in those ages 3 to 8 to just 36% in those 65 or older. Citation: Treanor JJ, Talbot HK, Ohmit SE, et al.
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Procalcitonin Nears Prime Time
February 2, 2013
What is the relationship between procalcitonin (ProCT) levels and radiographic abnormalities in patients with suspected pneumonia?
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Readmission after Initial Injury Is Common
February 2, 2013
How frequently are patients readmitted after an initial inpatient stay for an injury, and what factors might predict readmission?
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Daily Sedation Interruption among Intubated Not Helpful
February 2, 2013
Does sedation by protocol, in combination with daily sedative interruption, reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation and ICU stay?
