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Physician Learns Lessons About Patient Care from Failure
June 8, 2015
“Are you comfortable talking to him about all this stuff?” my attending asked me casually.
“Yeah, of course—sure,” I replied, trying to mimic the same casual tone.
STOP!
Hold on.
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Medical Care Overuse Causes Waste, Harm in Healthcare
June 8, 2015
A trickle of anecdotes has become a flood of cautionary tales.
There’s one about the patient in intensive care who didn’t have a cardiac condition yet still had a troponin blood test on 26 consecutive days.
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Consider ACO Participation As Medicare Weighs Changes to Shared Savings Program
June 1, 2015
In December 2014, nearly three years since its launch, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the first proposed rule changes to the Shared Savings Program.
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Hot Topics in Practice Management; HM15 Session Analysis
April 9, 2015
HM15 Session RAPID FIRE PANEL: Hot Topics in Practice Management Updates on Key Issues, Including the Key Characteristics of an Effective HMG
HM15 Presenters: Roy Sittig MD SFHM, Jeffrey Frank MD MBA, Jodi Braun
Summation: Speakers covered timely topics regarding the Accountable Care Act, nam
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Bob Wachter’s New Book Examines Healthcare in Digital Age
April 3, 2015
This month, Bob Wachter, MD, MHM, chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and well known for his work in patient safety and healthcare quality, debuts his latest book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s C
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Lean Six Sigma Improves Pediatric Discharge Times
April 3, 2015
Journal of Hospital Medicine study finds restructuring daily rounds improved throughput
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Malpractice Reform Does Not Change Physician Practice Patterns
- Adam Wachter, MD;
- David Ming, MD;
- Lisa Cohen, MD;
- Noppon Setji, MD;
- Poonam Sharma, MD
March 3, 2015
Clinical question: Do malpractice reform policies shift physician practice patterns toward lower utilization of healthcare resources?
Background: Physician-reported fears of lawsuits lead to defensive medicine practices, which contribute to high healthcare costs.
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Opinion
A Practice Resolution
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
December 2, 2014
In the heart of the holiday season’s gluttony (and the challenges of staffing the holidays), we need something to get us excited for 2015.
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Cut Costs, Improve Quality and Patient Experience
December 2, 2014
“Now that’s a fire!”
—Eddie Murphy
This is the final column in my five-part series tracing the history of the hospitalist movement and the factors that propelled it into becoming the fastest growing medical specialty in history and the mainstay of American medicine that it has become.
In the
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Shorter Stay, Fewer Interventions With Initial Cholecystectomy for Choledocholithiasis
- Nita Shrikant Kulkarni, MD
September 18, 2014
Which strategy—initial cholecystectomy or common duct endoscopic investigation followed by cholecystectomy—leads to better outcomes in the treatment of suspected common duct stones?