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End-of-Life Discussions Don’t Decrease Rate of Survival
Advance-care-planning discussions and advance directives resulted in no significant difference in survival time for patients.
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Win Whitcomb: A New Quality Paradigm
Cost Is the New Quality; Waste Is the New Cost
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Efficacy, Diagnoses, Frequency Play Parts in Coverage Limitations
Medicare may only pay for items and services that are “reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury or to improve...
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A Long, Interrupted Day
Hospitalist Daniel Bitetto spends a lot of time in meetings, teaching, and walking the halls of his 709-bed hospital.
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Lessons from Japan: Sacrifice Is Key to Personalized Patient Care
The way the Japanese people responded to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami illustrates how healthcare workers without existing patient relationships...
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The Future of Hospital Medicine
The biggest challenge hospitalists face is fulfillment of our promise.
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Hospitalists and Clothes Dryers are a Lot Alike
It might seem like a stretch, but my recent encounters with clothes dryers have taught me a few lessons about what HM groups need to function at...
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John Nelson: Recognition, Promotion, Development Critical to Group Success
Well-designed forms of nonmonetary compensation can have a greater impact on a hospitalist than providing a reward in dollars.
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Feedback Needed to Help Guide Pediatric HM’s Certification Debate
Our input has been solicited by the Strategic Committee to help sort through the issue of certification in pediatric hospital medicine. What is...
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Change Happens—Make Sure You Are Prepared
What to do when your hospitalist group is imploding.