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SHM Elects Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP, to Newly Created Pediatrics Seat on Board of Directors
July 2, 2005
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Managing Physician Performance in Hospital Medicine
July 2, 2005
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Four Physicians Presented SHM’s 2005 National Awards of Excellence
July 2, 2005
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SHM Inducts New Officers at Annual Meeting
July 2, 2005
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Other Pediatric Literature of Interest
July 2, 2005
1. Bender B, Skae C, Ozuah P. Oral rehydration therapy: the clear solution to fluid loss. Contemp Pediatr. 2005;22:72-6. Acute diarrhea leads to more than 1.5 million outpatient visits, 200,000 hospital visits, and 300 deaths per year in the United States.
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Pediatric in the Literature
July 2, 2005
Hospital “Report Cards”: Variation in the Management of Bronchiolitis Christakis DA, Cowan CA, Garrison MM, Molteni R, Marcuse E, Zerr DM. Variation in Inpatient Diagnostic Testing and Management of Bronchiolitis. Pediatrics. 2005;115:878-4.
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Pediatric Practice Profile
July 2, 2005
The Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Neonatal-Pediatric Hospitalist Program
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Other Literature of Interest
July 2, 2005
1. Chimowitz MI, Lynn MJ, Howlett-Smith H, et al. Comparison of warfarin and aspirin for symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis. N Engl J Med. 352:1305-16.
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In the Literature
July 2, 2005
Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication Errors; Risk Stratification for In-hospital Mortality in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure: Classification and Regression Tree Analysis; and Risk of Endocarditis among Patients with Prosthetic Valves and Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia
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The Template Progress Note: a Timesaving Innovation
July 2, 2005
Documentation in the form of the daily progress note is an important and cumbersome detail in the life of a hospitalist. Recognizing this, we saw an opportunity for improvement in this process and began a creative endeavor to rework the progress note.