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C. Diff Deaths at All-Time High
April 26, 2012
Both incidence and deaths related to the bacterial infection Clostridium difficile have reached an all-time high, according to the CDC.
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AMA Microsite Offers New Practice-Management Resources
April 26, 2012
In January, the American Medical Association announced a redesigned website for its Practice Management Center, a resource designed to help physicians manage their practice more effectively.
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Hospital Quality Reporting Fails to Impact Death Rates
April 26, 2012
A study concludes that Hospital Compare, the government’s national hospital quality data reporting system, has produced no reductions in 30-day mortality rates for heart attacks and pneumonia.
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Win Whitcomb: Hospitalists, PCPs, and Population Health
April 26, 2012
Game on with SHM’s Complex Medically Ill Project
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Shaun Frost: Accountability Is Key to Hospital Medicine’s Success
April 26, 2012
We all must strive to consistently hold ourselves, and each other, personally accountable for embracing the work necessary to realize HM’s potential to be a true healthcare reform effector.
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Why Hospitalists are Important, Integral, and Irreplaceable
April 26, 2012
As an introduction to my new role as physician editor, I should explain why I took this on. Simply stated: I drank the Kool-Aid. I firmly believe in the power and future of hospital medicine.
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John Nelson: Your Hospital Should Use Scripts to Describe Hospitalists to Patients
April 26, 2012
Ideally, all communication about the hospitalist as an individual and the whole system of hospitalist care should help reassure the patient. Sadly, many people at the hospital unwittingly do the opposite.
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Hospitalists Are Responsible for Discharge, Even If Patient Doesn’t Leave the ED
April 26, 2012
Generally, when the ED doctor thinks that a patient warrants admission, then, in their mind, the case then belongs to you, not them.
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SHM Should Create Task Force to Explore Reimbursement Methodology Change
April 26, 2012
I think it’s about time that we physicians take a stand and try to change some of the ridiculous word games going on in Medicare reimbursement circles.
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Do Not Swab Any Superficial Dermatologic Wound Without Sterilizing the Surface
April 26, 2012
Letter in response to "10 Things Hospitalists Should Know about Infectious Disease."
