Reducing Pediatric Sepsis Mortality
The death of a pediatric patient with sepsis spurred New York to mandate statewide sepsis...
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Hospital Medicine
A Call for Gender Equity: #BeEthical
When I departed Scotland in 1985 to travel to America for my surgical oncology fellowship (breast...
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AI for Reducing Clinical Variation & Costs
Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to achieve its potential by focusing on the major...
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Physician Empathy Matters in the Pediatric ICU
When conducting care conferences with families in the pediatric ICU, communicating important news...
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Psychological Distress After Cardiac Arrest
To determine the association of depressive and PTSD symptoms with cardiac arrest survivors’...
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Heartfelt Gratitude to Residents Around the World
There are two moments of my intern year I will never forget. The first morning, during...
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Help Is Only a Text Away
In our article, Tackling Binge Drinking with Text Messages, Brian Suffoletto, MD, MS, discusses...
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Doctor-Patient Communication: How to Finally Stop Talking About It
Studies and news articles about the importance of the relationship between physicians and patients...
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Missed Opportunities: Time to Improve the Assessment of Preterm Labor
Recent reports reveal a disturbing increase in pregnancy-related mortality in the United States...
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In-Hospital Mobility
By Andy Skean Senior Editor Previous research has demonstrated a correlation between...
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Treating Adolescents With Cancer
Although adolescents with cancer can receive care in pediatric or adult institutions with survival...
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Hospital Volume and Sepsis Mortality
By Andy Skean Senior Editor Multiple studies have reported that septic patients have better...
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Escaping Burnout in Medicine – One Book at a Time
Let me open up my world to you and share with you the stories that helped me throughout my medical...
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EHRs: Pros & Cons – Infographic
Doctors overwhelming agree that they are more proficient with the EHRs today vs 3 years ago. But...
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EHRs & Hospital Mortality
Despite substantial national investment in electronic health records (EHRs) under the HITECH Act,...
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An Alternative to Inpatient Care
Hospital-at-Home (HaH) care provides acute hospital-level care in a patient’s home as a substitute...
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Effects of Increased Inpatient Attending Physician Supervision
The relationship between resident work hours and patient safety has been studied at length;...
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Improving HIV Outcomes With HIE
By Andy Skean Senior Editor Numerous studies have illustrated the ability of antiretroviral...
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Artificial Pancreas Improves Glycemic Control
By Andy Skean Senior Editor While evidence suggests that a closed-loop insulin delivery...
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An Animal-Assisted Intervention in the ICU
ICU patients frequently experience confusion, anxiety, sleeplessness, pain, and/or loneliness....
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