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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?
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Questionable Benefit of Oral Chlorhexidine in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
- Nita Shrikant Kulkarni, MD
August 21, 2014
For patients receiving mechanical ventilation, does routine oral care with chlorhexidine improve outcomes?
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How Should Hyponatremia Be Evaluated and Managed?
- Charlie Madeira, MD;
- Dennis Chang, MD
August 1, 2014
Measuring patients’ plasma and urine osmolarity, assessing volume status with physical exam, treating with hypertonic saline, and monitoring serum sodium levels are recommended
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Opinion
Proper Inpatient Documentation, Coding Essential to Avoid a Medicare Audit
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
July 1, 2014
Tips to help your hospital medicine group ensure appropriate CPT coding
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Yogurt May Reduce Clostridium Difficile Infection Rate
July 1, 2014
Incidence of C.diff cut by two-thirds among inpatients on antibiotics who ate yogurt at Pennsylvania-based hospital
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Home Hospice Providers Offer Best Practices for End-of-Life Care
July 1, 2014
Hospice care techniques improved outcomes, comfort for dying patients
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When Should You Suspect Kawasaki Disease as the Cause of Fever in an Infant?
- John Kanegaye, MD;
- Tatiana Gurevich-Panigrahi, MD;
- Weijen Chang, MD
July 1, 2014
Clinicians should be suspicious of KD in young infants with unexplained fevers lasting more than seven days
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Which Patients Should be Screened for Hepatitis C Virus Infection?
- Alexander R. Carbo, MD, SFHM, FACP;
- And Joseph M.W. Li, MD, SFHM, FACP;
- Elana S. Rosenthal, MD;
- Jesse Theisen-Toupal, MD
June 1, 2014
Insufficient current screening strategies for people with high prevalence of chronic HCV infection should prompt hospitalists to improve screening rates in this population