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What Hospitalists Can Really Learn from Aviation
The aviation safety model is often discussed in a healthcare context but in a way that may miss the most important points, a new article suggests...
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Educating Patients about Sleep Tools
One of the biggest complaints of hospital patients today is poor sleep, which is not conducive to healing or good health in general
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Addressing Hospitalist Burnout with Mindfulness
Hospitalists are especially prone to stress and burnout, according to an abstract published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine
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Wartime Lessons Inform Civilian Medicine
During the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the percentage of wounded soldiers who died as a result of their injuries reached its lowest point in...
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Spreading Innovation among Hospitalists
As part of an emerging and rapidly growing specialty, academic hospitalists face unique challenges in career advancement
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Working Towards Fewer Delirium Cases
Delirium may be preventable among the elderly population, according to an abstract
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Intervention Decreases Urinary Tract Infections from Catheters
Hospitalists can impact CAUTI rates by using a simple bundle of interventions
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Reducing Drug Expenditure with Computerized Alerts
Hospitalists face ever-increasing pressure to reduce drug expenditures without compromising the quality of care provided to patients, and as a...
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Tips Toward Better Clinical Summaries
“I recently discharged a complex patient from the hospital, and I was shocked to see the poor quality of his clinical summary,” says Erin...
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New Framework for Quality Improvement
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Applying Military Principles to HM Leadership
Hospitalists are more than doctors—they are also leaders in their organizations, which is why a new book by retired Army Lieutenant General Mark...
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Barriers to Achieving High Reliability
The conceptual models being used in healthcare’s efforts to achieve high reliability may have weaknesses, according to Marc T. Edwards, MD, MBA,...
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Benefits of Hospital-Wide Mortality Reviews
Death is a subject everyone cares about—but we could talk about it more, especially in hospitals, where a lot of people die.
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Tackling the Readmissions Problem
Virtually every hospital system in the country deals with the challenge of readmissions, especially 30-day readmissions, and it’s only getting...
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Benefits of Earlier Palliative Care
Offering palliative care early to hospitalized patients with multiple serious conditions could improve care and help reduce healthcare spending,...