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Point-of-Care Troponin in 2017: Conference Lessons on Ruling Out MI
When the Society of Hospital Medicine gathered more than four thousand clinicians in Las Vegas for Hospital Medicine 2017, the schedule reflected a profession…
Managing polypharmacy in older adults with HM17 deprescribing tools
Australasian hospitals are admitting increasingly complex older patients whose medication lists often exceed ten regular items. The 2017 Hospital Medicine…
Hospitalists and Antibiotic Stewardship: The 2017 Consensus Guidance
Antibiotic resistance is one of the defining clinical problems of the twenty‑first century, and nowhere is the response more visible than in the hospital ward.…
Discharge summaries that prevent errors: lessons from HM17
When a patient leaves the hospital, the document that travels with them carries enormous weight. A well-written discharge summary keeps the general…
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Medically Complex Patients
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention becomes difficult when a hospitalised patient has several competing risks at once. Frailty, cancer, renal impairment,…
Clinical Documentation Improvement Basics for the Hospitalist—A 2017 Refresher
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) sits at the intersection of patient care, coding, clinical communication and hospital performance. For a hospitalist,…
Integrating Behavioral Health Into General Medicine Rounds
General medicine rounds increasingly require clinicians to recognise that physical symptoms, emotional distress and social circumstances are closely connected.…
How to Use CURB-65 Alternatives for Pneumonia Admission Decisions
Pneumonia admission decisions are rarely determined by a single score. CURB-65 remains familiar because it is quick, easy to calculate and useful for…
Handoff Standardisation Across Shift Changes: Lessons From HM17
Safe clinical handover is one of the most practical ways to reduce preventable harm in hospital medicine. A patient may move from the emergency department to a…
Managing Acute Kidney Injury on the General Ward
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a time-sensitive syndrome rather than a single diagnosis. A patient may have a small early rise in serum creatinine, reduced urine…
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