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Strong Leadership Evident at HM13
June 1, 2013
Both past and incoming SHM leaders will help keep hospitalist practice strategic and viable
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Letters: Medicare Official Says ‘Physician Compare’ Website Does Not Provide Performance Data on Individual Doctors
June 1, 2013
Although the Website does not currently post individual physician clinical performance data, it does report if a physician participated in Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting System, and reported quality information for the year, says SHM president Shaun Frost, MD, SFHM.
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Behavioral Economics Can Accelerate Adoption of Choosing Wisely Campaign
- Brad Flansbaum, DO, MPH, SFHM;
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
June 1, 2013
Hospitalists who alter their habits are more likely to embrace Choosing Wisely recommendations
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Sunshine Rule Requires Physicians to Report Gifts from Drug, Medical Device Companies
May 2, 2013
Exemption will allow indirect payments to speakers at CME classes or courses
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Addressing The Joint Commission’s Concern About Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
May 2, 2013
The recent article by Susan Kreimer “Serious Complications from Opioid Overuse in Hospitalized Patients Prompts Nationwide Alert” in the February 2013 issue of The Hospitalist highlights an important patient safety issue
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Lack of Transparency Plagues U.S. Health Care System
May 1, 2013
Health care reform efforts have done little to change the price or the cost of care, or make them transparent
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Drive Change in an ACO
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
April 30, 2013
Change your mindset and consider four key strategies
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Two Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Share Their Strategies for Success
April 1, 2013
Pairing with a multispecialty private-practice group and using nurse practitioners for at-home patient visits are tactics used by successful ACOs
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How Should a Patient with Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain be Treated?
- Ann Arbor;
- Megan MacK, MD;
- Nathan Houchens, MD;
- Stephanie Czarnik, MD;
- University Of Michigan Health System
April 1, 2013
Treatment includes normalizing the toxic systemic effects of the drug and minimizing the direct ischemic damage to the myocardium
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FDA Recommends New Opioids Research Prove Abuse-Deterrent Properties
March 20, 2013
Agency aims to prevent abuse and misuse, while ensuring that patients in pain have access to important medicines