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Remote Rounds And Hospital Medicine Lessons From 2017
Hospital Medicine 2017 brought hospitalists and allied healthcare professionals together at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas from 1–4 May 2017. The…
Reducing Rapid Response Calls Through Root Cause Patterns
Rapid response calls are visible events, but they are rarely the beginning of a patient’s deterioration. Long before a medical emergency team arrives, a…
Opioid Stewardship in the Inpatient Ward: Lessons from HM17
Opioids remain essential in acute care, yet every inpatient prescription carries a balance between relief, function, adverse effects and future risk.…
Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Hospitalist’s HM17 Checklist
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become a practical extension of the hospitalist’s examination. It can answer focused bedside questions about volume…
Palliative Care In The Acute Setting: Lessons From Las Vegas
Palliative care in an acute hospital is often associated with the final hours of life, yet its practical reach is much broader. It can help a person with…
The 2017 Guide to Observation Status Coding for Hospitalists
Observation status sits at the boundary between emergency care and inpatient admission. For hospitalists, the coding challenge is to represent the patient’s…
Post-Conference Pearls for Safer Acute COPD Care
The most useful lesson from hospital medicine conferences is often a practical one: a patient with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary…
Hospitalists and Subspecialty Communication Lessons from HM17
Hospital Medicine 2017 convened at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas from 1 to 4 May, drawing hospitalists, general physicians, and a broad contingent of subspecialty…
Handoff strategies from HM17 that cut nightly errors on the ward
Around 2200 on a busy Tuesday at a tertiary hospital in Melbourne, a junior medical officer scribbles a ward list, glances at the observation chart, and waits…
Rolling out modern sepsis bundles in a community hospital
Sepsis remains one of the most time-sensitive emergencies a clinician can face, with each hour of delayed antibiotic therapy associated with measurable…
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