Larry Beresford is an Oakland, Calif.-based freelance medical journalist with a breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, management and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death, and dying. He is a longtime contributor to The Hospitalist, for which he covers re-admissions, pain management, palliative care, physician stress and burnout, quality improvement, waste prevention, practice management, innovation, and technology. He also contributes to Medscape. Learn more about his work at www.larryberesford.com; follow him on Twitter @larryberesford.
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Proactive Approaches Can Mitigate Dangerous Transitions into Hospitals
Help stave off repeat hospital visits by engaging in frank discussions with the patient or nursing-home facility staff about the goals of care
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Professional Development Program Advances Hospitalist Leadership Skills
Emory School of Medicine’s Division of Hospital Medicine supports faculty development training in the areas of administrative leadership, quality...
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Palliative Care ‘Report Card’ Released
Report counts proportion of each state’s hospitals with access to organized palliative-care programs
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IOM Report Outlines Health IT Concerns
The Institute of Medicine identifies potential harm that could stem from a digital healthcare system
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Hospitalist Leads Project to Improve Antimicrobial Prescribing
University of Michigan's Scott Flanders oversees pilot test of interventions at 8 hospitals
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Health Plans, Physician Groups Show Interest in Post-Discharge Clinics
Hospitalists working in the outpatient setting requires a change in mindset, acceptance of responsibility for patients' care across settings
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San Fran General’s Transitional Care Clinic Undergoes Makeover
HM program rethinks transitional medicine, begins curriculum adjustment
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: San Fran General’s Transitional Care Clinic Undergoes Transition
“Mini” bridge clinic collaborates care coordinators on discharge planning, teaches medical residents the challenges of care transitions
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Lauren Doctoroff discuss BIDMC’s postdischarge clinic
Dr. Doctoroff discusses how BIDMC’s postdischarge clinic works and the patients who need it the most
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Is a Post-Discharge Clinic in Your Hospital's Future?
A practice-changing perspective on hospitalized patients.
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Hospitalist Joins C-Suite Elite
Children’s hospital appoints pediatric hospitalist as its president, CEO
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She's Found Her Calling
The 2008 election and health-reform debate lead D.C. hospitalist to key federal position.
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Simple Interventions Save Lives
Relatively simple and inexpensive interventions can prevent hospital-acquired infections.
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Dartmouth Atlas: Little Progress Reducing Readmissions
The newest Dartmouth Atlas report documents little progress in decreasing 30-day readmissions, and identifies a link nationally between...
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By the Numbers: 209,000
Projected total number of adult in-hospital cardiac arrests that are treated with a resuscitation response each year in U.S. hospitals is 209,000...