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Ready for post-acute care?
As PAC expands, hospital medicine’s role – and leadership – will be key.
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Tips for Working with Difficult Doctors
Intimidation, verbal outbursts, refusing to perform tasks—what to do when a nightmare doc is on your team
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Experts Suggest Ways to Deal with Challenges Surrounding Care of Psychiatric Patients
In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every 300 Americans.
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Utah Health Sciences Center Realizes Significant Savings from Cost-Analysis Tool
Most healthcare systems don’t know or understand their cost of care at the unit that matters, i.e., the actual cost of care for an individual...
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Nick Fitterman, MD, SFHM, Discusses Population Health and Hospital Medicine's Role
[caption id="attachment_12613" align="alignright" width="202"] Nick Fitterman, MD, FACP, SFHM[/caption] Nick Fitterman, MD, SFHM, vice chair of...
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Why Hospitalists Should Embrace Population Health
Population health focuses on the specific health needs of an individual within a defined population. “In order to truly measure a patient’s...
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Population Health Prevails at Two Institutions
Population health—a movement to improve the health of an entire population—is a growing trend driven by the U.S. government.
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Unassigned, Undocumented Patients Take a Toll on Healthcare and Hospitalists
When a patient must remain in the acute care hospital setting—despite being well enough to transition to a lower level of care, costs continue to...
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Unassigned, Undocumented Inpatients Present Challenges; Some Hospitalists Have Solutions
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LISTEN NOW: Scott Sears, MD, Discusses Hospitalist Challenges with Unassigned, Uninsured Patients
Scott Sears, MD, chief clinical officer for Sound Physicians in Tacoma, Wash., discusses why patients without health insurance put hospitalists in...
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Hospitalists Play Vital Role in Patients’ View of Hospital Stay
Special Reports Resident Education, Feedback, Incentives Improve Patient Satisfaction Hospitalists' Role in Improving Patient Experience: A...
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Rise of the Chief Patient Experience Officer
Since the Cleveland Clinic hired its first CXO in 2007, more than 60 medical institutions have followed suit
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LISTEN NOW: Vladimir Cadet, MPH, discusses alarm fatigue challenges and solutions
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Hospitalists Key to Addressing Medical Device Alarm Fatigue
Beep! Bing! Buzz! Ding! Ring! Bleep! Everyday, throughout the day, hospitalists and other healthcare workers are inundated with alerts and...
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Tips for Reducing Medical Device Alarm Fatigue
In April 2013, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert that provided hospitals with recommendations for assessing their individual...