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Opinion
Early Mobility Program
- Justin Psaila, MD, FHM;
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
November 30, 2015
“I didn’t get out of bed for 10 days” —Anonymous patient admitted to a skilled nursing facility post-hospitalization for a COPD exacerbation Readmission penalties, “Medicare spending per beneficiary” under value-based purchasing, and the move to accountable care are propelling hospitalists to do
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COPD Exacerbation Prevention: April 2015 CHEST Guidelines
- Jonathan Lovins, MD, SFHM;
- Robert Lampman, MD
October 6, 2015
Background
The CHEST guidelines for the prevention of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) were developed through a collaboration between the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) and the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS).
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Opinion
Empathy, Patients, and Caregivers
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
October 5, 2015
Empathy—the feeling that you understand and share another person’s experiences and emotions: the ability to share someone else’s feelings.
—Merriam-Webster
By the time I became a third-year medical resident, I had mastered the repertoire of “don’t tread on me” behaviors that seemed essential to
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Troponin Test Can Predict Mortality Risk in Cardiovascular Patients
- (Reuters Health);
- Gene Emery
September 11, 2015
NEW YORK — An experimental, highly sensitive troponin test cannot predict when type 2 diabetics with stable ischemic heart disease will benefit from prompt coronary revascularization, but it can show which patients are more likely to die from myocardial infarction, stroke, or other cardiovascular ca
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Physicians Critical of Proposed Changes to Medicare’s Two-Midnight Rule
September 9, 2015
[caption id="attachment_11176" align="alignright" width="300"] Hospitalist Ann Sheehy, MD, (left) meets with legislators after testifying in Washington, D.C., regarding issues surrounding Medicare’s two-midnight rule.[/caption]
In the wake of proposed changes to the Centers for Medicare and Medic
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Cognitive, Emotional Memory Disconnect Impacts Patient Satisfaction
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- Thomas McIlraith, MD, SFHM
September 8, 2015
Patients judge quality of medical care on emotional memory
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Maintaining Board Certification Has High Hidden Cost
August 11, 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) maintenance-of-certification (MOC) program could cost $5.7 billion in physicians' time and fees over the next decade, according to a new model study.
"We estimate that physicians will spend 33 million hours o
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New Expectations for Value-Based Healthcare
July 29, 2015
A new book by three leading hospital medicine advocates for maximizing efficiency and outcomes while managing costs and avoiding waste in healthcare—also known as value-based healthcare—offers a primer filled with practical advice for doctors and other clinicians.1 The hospitalist authors of Underst
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Experts Urge Extension to Medicaid’s Parity Program
July 29, 2015
On the last day of 2014, a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that increased payments to some physicians providing primary care services to the country’s poorest patients expired.
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From a Near-Catastrophe, I-CARE
June 9, 2015
For Robert Fogerty, MD, MPH, it’s more than just a story. It’s a nightmare that he only narrowly avoided.
Now a hospitalist at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., Dr.