Tom Collins is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written about medical topics from nasty infections to ethical dilemmas, runaway tumors to tornado-chasing doctors. He travels the globe gathering conference health news and lives in West Palm Beach.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Anticoagulant's Receives FDA Approval to Treat Deep Vein Thrombosis, Pulmonary Embolism
Rivaroxaban's new indications for DVT, PE a "major breakthrough," experts say
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Joaquin Cigarroa, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University, discuss the overlap of cardiology and hospital medicine
Dr. Cigarroa is clinical chief of cardiology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland
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Guidelines Drive Optimal Care for Heart Failure Patients
For patients with heart failure, adhering to recommended therapies reduces 24-month mortality risk
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12 Things Cardiologists Think Hospitalists Need to Know
Experts offer practical advice to help you care for the growing number of heart-failure patients.
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Follow-Up Appointments Essential for Heart Failure Patients
Risk of rehospitalization low for heart-failure patients who follow-up with their outpatient doctors
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Expert Discusses How to Have Conversations with Dissatisfied Hospitalists
Len Scarpinato, chief medical officer of clinical development with Cogent-HMG, discusses the rise in physicians choosing HM as a career and how to...
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Speak Up: Getting Hospitalists to Voice Dissatisfaction Isn’t Easy
HM group directors need to be "in tune" with colleagues' job satisfaction, outside interests
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Are Your Hospitalists Bored?
A toolkit to keep your hospitalists fulfilled, engaged, and happy.
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Hospitalists Should Prepare for the Patient-Centered Medical Home
As the “patient-centered medical home” model gains steam, hospitalists should know what’s coming
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The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Primer
The main components of the PCMH and how they’ve been implemented in real practice
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Should Hospitalists Be Concerned about the PCHM Model?
If the "patient-centered medical home" model does what it intends to do fewer people will likely be hospitalized.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) appears to reduce hospitalizations, but AHRQ says good evidence still lacking
Researchers estimate that it could take 10 years to get reliable results
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: HM Chief Discusses Hospitalist Role in Patient-Centered Medical Home
Kevin Eichhorn, MD, hospital medicine chief at Dean Health System in Wisconsin, discusses the hospitalist’s role in the patient-centered medical...
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to new physician editor Danielle Scheurer's vision for The Hospitalist
One goal is to make the-hospitalist.org more interactive, allowing for more direct participation from readers
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10 Things Hospitalists Should Know about Infectious Diseases
10 tips that should help hospitalists treat their patients more effectively