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AMA Microsite Offers New Practice-Management Resources
In January, the American Medical Association announced a redesigned website for its Practice Management Center, a resource designed to help...
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Hospital Quality Reporting Fails to Impact Death Rates
A study concludes that Hospital Compare, the government’s national hospital quality data reporting system, has produced no reductions in 30-day...
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Win Whitcomb: Hospitalists, PCPs, and Population Health
Game on with SHM’s Complex Medically Ill Project
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Shaun Frost: Accountability Is Key to Hospital Medicine's Success
We all must strive to consistently hold ourselves, and each other, personally accountable for embracing the work necessary to realize HM’s...
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Why Hospitalists are Important, Integral, and Irreplaceable
As an introduction to my new role as physician editor, I should explain why I took this on. Simply stated: I drank the Kool-Aid. I firmly believe...
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John Nelson: Your Hospital Should Use Scripts to Describe Hospitalists to Patients
Ideally, all communication about the hospitalist as an individual and the whole system of hospitalist care should help reassure the patient. Sadly...
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Making HIV Testing a Routine Part of Adolescent Care
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Hospitalists Are Responsible for Discharge, Even If Patient Doesn't Leave the ED
Generally, when the ED doctor thinks that a patient warrants admission, then, in their mind, the case then belongs to you, not them.
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SHM Should Create Task Force to Explore Reimbursement Methodology Change
I think it’s about time that we physicians take a stand and try to change some of the ridiculous word games going on in Medicare reimbursement...
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Do Not Swab Any Superficial Dermatologic Wound Without Sterilizing the Surface
Letter in response to "10 Things Hospitalists Should Know about Infectious Disease."