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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Warm Welcome
Project BOOST principals brief health-reform operatives
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Palliative Care Documentation Key to Core Measures
Proper palliative care coding will prevent an unwarranted increase in hospital mortality rates.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Audio interview with a pediatric hospitalist who is starting a palliative care team
Listen to an audio interview with Ami Doshi, MD, who is spearheading an effort to establish a pediatric palliative care team at the University of...
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Handoffs Smoother in Rural Communities
Smaller networks, more familiarity good for transitions, patients
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Change You Should Believe In
Care transitions challenge hospitalists to improve systems, communication
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Audio interviews with transitions of care experts
Hospitalists Arpana Vidyarthi, MD, Anuj Dalal, MD, and Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, discuss care transitions
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Simulator Training Program Aims to Improve Hospital Handoffs
Transitions of care training offers "“air of authenticity ... without the high-risk environment of learning on live patients”
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Talking the Talk
Congress acknowledges HM’s essential role in healthcare
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Checklists Not Enough, Checklist Doctor Says
Pronovost stresses care collaboration in new book
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Next Stop on Cost-Cutting Train: Readmission Reductions
Feds push to align hospital payments and incentives with quality and patient safety
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Stroke Treatment Variance Doesn't Affect Mortality
Clot-busting drug more likely to be given on weekends, but little difference in patient outcomes
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Public Reporting of Discharge Planning Challenged
Study finds weak correlation between discharge 'quality' and readmission rates
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Spotlight on Stroke
Hospitalists can enhance stroke care through collaboration, training, and specialization
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Hub and Spoke For Stroke
Boston-based TeleStroke Hub Builds Relationships with Hospital Partners
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Communication, interdisciplinary approaches key to effective transitions
Communication, interdisciplinary approaches key to effective transitions