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Dysphagia more common than hospitalists think
Hospitalists should evaluate their patients for aspiration syndrome and swallowing difficulty, known as dysphagia, more carefully than they now do...
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Dell Medical School: A unique agenda for a new era
Can a new medical school, with an unprecedented curriculum focused intensely on costs and value, employing teams that include nurses, pharmacists...
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Four ways hospitalists can improve care for drug-addicted patients
Hospitalists have a lot to learn about providing care for the growing number of their patients addicted to opioids, and should reframe opioid...
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Three things hospitalists ‘do for no reason’... and should stop
Dr. Leonard Feldman, a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has presented a list of usually unnecessary hospitalist practices for 5...
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Hospitalists pitch value ideas in Shark Tank
Hospitalists looking for ways to reduce costs and make their patients safer might learn strategies from the TV game show “Shark Tank.”
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The Top 10 mobile apps for hospitalists
With approximately 100,000 mHealth (or mobile health) apps and 13,000 medical apps available to mobile device users, how should a hospitalist...
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Hospitalists should drive post-discharge care selection
If hospitalists want to do well when bundled payment models kick in, they must help to direct the choice of post-discharge care settings for their...
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Time to scrap 7-on, 7-off schedule for hospitalists
The time has come to do away with the 12-hours-a-day, “7-on, 7-off” schedules followed by nearly all hospitalist groups, according to Dr. Robert...
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HHS to doctors: We hear your health IT woes
When ordering aspirin takes eight clicks on the computer and ordering full-strength aspirin takes 16, you know that health IT has become a...
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Feds: Major EHR companies will remove interoperability roadblocks
Sylvia Burwell: Technology isn’t just one leg of the strategy to improve the U.S. health care system – it supports the entire effort.
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Vitamin D improved vascular function in kidney disease
Vitamin D supplements may improve vascular function in patients with stage 3 and 4 chronic kidney disease who do not have diabetes.
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In angiography, intracoronary contrast damaged kidneys more than IV contrast
Kidney injury was two to three times more likely after intracoronary than after IV contrast administration in angiography for suspected heart...