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Patient Safety

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How to prevent and manage hospital violence

Phyllis Maguire -
Key takeaways: • Hospitals are deploying different strategies for prevention and de-escalation. •  A consistent response helps defuse patients sooner and allow staff to experience less...
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To manage capacity, a health system relies on interhospital admission transfers

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

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How the EHR can ruin your documentation—and increase legal liability

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Is secure messaging in hospitals effective or disruptive? Or both?

Compensation & Career

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Pay for hospitalist program directors: What’s the average?

Edward Doyle -
HOW MUCH MORE do hospitalist program directors earn than the hospitalists they work alongside every day? On our most recent annual Today's Hospitalist survey, we...
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Hospitalist shift differentials for working extra shifts, nights

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Rounders and admitters in hospital medicine: Who’s using them?

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Geographic rounds: Who’s using unit-based rounds?

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How many extra shifts do hospitalists work per month?

Healthcare Redesign

Clinical work

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Hospitalist-led consult service for OUD scores big benefits

Phyllis Maguire -
Key takeaways: • Hospitalized patients with OUD seen by a hospitalist-led consult service had much higher medication initiation rates than patients with OUD who weren't...
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Want to cut down on ED boarding?

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Strategies to reduce ED boarding: Surrounding patients with outpatient resources

Quality improvement

Florida hospitals sue Leapfrog Group over hospital safety scores

Hospitals score a win in fight against Leapfrog safety ratings

Edward Doyle -
A health network in Florida has won a victory in its fight against the hospital safety ratings issued by the Leapfrog Group, claiming that...
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How hospitals can cut admission delays by 30%

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Patients who want to fire their hospitalist: What should you do?

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