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Opinion
Tips for Policy and Procedure Manuals, Along with Roles for NP/PAs
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
March 31, 2016
Editor’s note: Second in a three-part series.
This month continues my list of important issues that help position your hospitalist group for greatest success.
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CDC Released Voluntary Guidelines to Help Lower Opioid and Abuse of Painkillers
- Ransdell Pierson;
- Reuters
March 24, 2016
(Reuters) - Addressing a growing "epidemic" of opioid overdoses and abuse of the prescribed painkillers in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released voluntary guidelines that instruct primary care doctors to sharply deter use of the medicines for chronic p
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Community Partnerships, Data Key to Readmission Reduction in Diverse Populations
March 23, 2016
When Houston Methodist Hospital noticed patients in one particular zip code were failing to make it to follow-up appointments after hospital discharge, they looked into it.
“We found it wasn’t on a bus route,” says Janice Finder, RN, MSN, director of the hospital’s Transitions in Care program and
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VTEP Guidelines Can Be Systematically Implemented in Pediatric Inpatients
March 21, 2016
Clinical question: Can venous thromboembolism prophylaxis (VTEP) guidelines be systematically implemented in a pediatric inpatient population?
Background: VTEP for hospitalized adult medical patients has been characterized in the literature as being safe and efficacious, although mortality benefi
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Potential Dangers of Using Technology in Healthcare
March 17, 2016
The incident that perhaps most fully impressed the potential dangers of electronic health records (EHRs) on hospitalist pioneer Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, came two years ago.
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Experts Suggest Ways to Deal with Challenges Surrounding Care of Psychiatric Patients
March 16, 2016
In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every 300 Americans.
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SHM Announces 2016 Awards of Excellence Winners
March 13, 2016
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) created the Awards of Excellence Program to honor its members whose exemplary contributions to the hospital medicine movement merit acknowledgment and celebration.
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A Look at Democratic Presidential Hopefuls’ Healthcare Ideas
January 14, 2016
Unlike the crowded Republican primary field heading into this year’s presidential election, just three candidates seek the Democratic nomination: former First Lady and former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, and U.S. Sen.
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Where Leading GOP Presidential Candidates Stand on Health Policies
December 15, 2015
As the long 2016 presidential election season draws on, Republican hopefuls strive to stand out among their fellow party candidates; however, many in the running remain tacit about specific policies on issues ranging from immigration to gun control and healthcare.
“Many of these candidates … do n
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What Are the Strategies for Secondary Stroke Prevention after Transient Ischemic Attack?
- And Vanja Douglas, MD;
- Lily Zeng, MD;
- Tenn.;
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center In Nashville
December 1, 2015
Case
Mr. G is an 80-year-old man with a pacemaker, peripheral artery disease, atrial fibrillation (AF) on warfarin, and tachy-brady syndrome. He presented after experiencing episodes in which he was unable to speak and had weakness on his right side.