Tom Collins is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written about medical topics from nasty infections to ethical dilemmas, runaway tumors to tornado-chasing doctors. He travels the globe gathering conference health news and lives in West Palm Beach.
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12 Things Cardiologists Think Hospitalists Need to Know
Experts offer practical advice to help you care for the growing number of heart-failure patients.
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Follow-Up Appointments Essential for Heart Failure Patients
Risk of rehospitalization low for heart-failure patients who follow-up with their outpatient doctors
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Expert Discusses How to Have Conversations with Dissatisfied Hospitalists
Len Scarpinato, chief medical officer of clinical development with Cogent-HMG, discusses the rise in physicians choosing HM as a career and how to...
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Speak Up: Getting Hospitalists to Voice Dissatisfaction Isn’t Easy
HM group directors need to be "in tune" with colleagues' job satisfaction, outside interests
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Are Your Hospitalists Bored?
A toolkit to keep your hospitalists fulfilled, engaged, and happy.
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Hospitalists Should Prepare for the Patient-Centered Medical Home
As the “patient-centered medical home” model gains steam, hospitalists should know what’s coming
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The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Primer
The main components of the PCMH and how they’ve been implemented in real practice
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Should Hospitalists Be Concerned about the PCHM Model?
If the "patient-centered medical home" model does what it intends to do fewer people will likely be hospitalized.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) appears to reduce hospitalizations, but AHRQ says good evidence still lacking
Researchers estimate that it could take 10 years to get reliable results
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: HM Chief Discusses Hospitalist Role in Patient-Centered Medical Home
Kevin Eichhorn, MD, hospital medicine chief at Dean Health System in Wisconsin, discusses the hospitalist’s role in the patient-centered medical...
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to new physician editor Danielle Scheurer's vision for The Hospitalist
One goal is to make the-hospitalist.org more interactive, allowing for more direct participation from readers
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10 Things Hospitalists Should Know about Infectious Diseases
10 tips that should help hospitalists treat their patients more effectively
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New Physician Editor of The Hospitalist Offers Broad Experience and an Eye for QI
With the appointment, The Hosptialist gains a high-energy physician with a broad spectrum of knowledge.
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How Prepared are Hospitalists to Handle Infectious Disease Cases?
Hospitalists routinely have to handle infection cases, but how well trained are they to do so, and how well prepared are the hospitals they work...
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Experts Urge Hospitalists To Be Good Antimicrobial Stewards
Infectious disease experts say hospitalists have to take care to narrowly tailor patients’ antibiotic treatments.