Sep. 2019, Volume 14, Issue Number 9 | MDedge

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Sep 2019
Vol. 14
No. 9

Original Research

Original Research

Frequently Hospitalized Patients’ Perceptions of Factors Contributing to High Hospital Use

Author:

Kevin J O’Leary, MD, MS

Margaret M Chapman, MD

Shandu Foster, MA

Lyndsey O’Hara, RN

Bruce L Henschen, MD, MPH

Kenzie A. Cameron, PhD, MPH

¹Division of Hospital Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; ²...
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Original Research

Reducing Unneeded Clinical Variation in Sepsis and Heart Failure Care to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Cost: A Collaborative Engagement with Hospitalists in a MultiState System

Author:

Michael Yurso, MD

Brent Box, MD

Trever Burgon, PhD

Loran Hauck, MD

Krystyna Tagg, RN

Kathleen Clem, MD

David Paculdo, MPH

M Czarina Acelajado, MD

Diana Tamondong-Lachica, MD

John W Peabody, MD PhD

¹AdventHealth, Office of Clinical Excellence, Altamonte Springs, Florida; ²QURE Healthcare, San...
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Brief Reports

Brief Reports

Retrospective Cohort Study of the Prevalence of Off-label Gabapentinoid Prescriptions in Hospitalized Medical Patients

Author:

Marc-Alexandre Gingras, MD, MSc

Anthony Lieu, MD

Louise Papillon-Ferland, BPharm, MSc

Todd C Lee, MD, MPH

Emily G McDonald, MD, MSc, FRCPC

¹Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada; ²Department of...
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Brief Reports

An Acute Care for Elders Quality Improvement Program for Complex, High-Cost Patients Yields Savings for the System

Author:

Maura J Brennan, MD

Alexander B Knee, MS

Erin J Leahy, MD

Michael J Ehresman, MBA

Heidi-Ann Courtney, PA-C

Patricia Coffelt, MSN, RN-BC

Mihaela S Stefan, MD, PhD

¹Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, Massachusetts; ²Baystate Medical Center Office of...
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Brief Reports

Achievable Benchmarks of Care for Pediatric Readmissions

Author:

Amanda Montalbano, MD, MPH

Ricardo A Quiñonez, MD

Matt Hall, PhD

Rustin Morse, MD

Stacey L Ishman, MD, MPH

James W Antoon, MD, PhD

Jessica Gold, MD

Ronald J Teufel, II, MD, MSCR

Vineeta Mittal MD, MBA

Samir S Shah, MD, MSCE

Kavita Parikh, MD MSHS

¹Division of Urgent Care and Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri, Kansas...
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Leadership and Professional Development

Leadership and Professional Development

Leadership & Professional Development: Searching for Ideas Close to Home

Author:

Anupam B Jena, MD, PhD

¹Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ²Department of...
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Progress Notes

Progress Notes

Clinical Progress Note: Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury

Author:

Jean-Philippe Roy, MD

Catherine S Forster, MD, MS

¹Center for Acute Care Nephrology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; ²...
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Progress Notes

Clinical Progress Notes: Updates from the 4th Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction

Author:

Christopher J King, MD

Andrew E Levy, MD

Jeffrey C Trost, MD

¹Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado; ²...
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Reviews

Reviews

Preventing Delirium Takes a Village: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Delirium Preventive Models of Care

Author:

Ariba Khan, MD, MPH

Olga Boukrina, PhD

Mooyeon Oh-Park, MD, MS

Nina A Flanagan, PhD, GNP

Maharaj Singh, PhD

Mark Oldham, MD

¹Department of Geriatrics, Advocate Aurora Health Care, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public...
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Choosing Wisely: Things We Do For No Reason

Choosing Wisely: Things We Do For No Reason

Things We Do For No Reason: Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Patients with Delirium

Author:

Amit K Pahwa, MD, FAAP

Imran Qureshi, Pharm D, BCPP

Ethan Cumbler, MD, FACP, FHM

¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; ²Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of...
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Editorial

Editorial

Patient Perspective is Critical in Developing Interventions for Frequently Admitted Patients

Author:

Kirstin Knox, MD, PhD

S Ryan Greysen, MD

¹Section of Hospital Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,...
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Editorial

Why Every Hospital Should (Must) Have an ACE Unit by 2040

Author:

Lisa M Walke, MD, MSHA, AGSF

S Ryan Greysen, MD, MHS, SFHM

¹University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;...
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Editorial

The Hospitalist Imperative: Standardizing Best Practice across Expanding Healthcare Networks

Author:

Linda Venner, MD; Nathan Starr, DO

Raj Srivastava, MD, FRCP(C), MPH

¹Hospitalist Medicine, Medical Surgery Operations, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah; ²...
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Editorial

Often Off-label: Questionable Gabapentinoid Use Noted at Hospital Admission Warrants Deprescribing

Author:

Kenneth Lam, MD

Paula A Rochon, MD, MPH

Michael A Steinman, MD

¹Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²Department of Medicine and...
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Clinical Care Conundrums

Clinical Care Conundrums

Last Resort

Author:

Jonathan S Zipursky, MD, FRCPC

Keri T Holmes-Maybank, MD, MSCR, SFHM

Steven L Shumak, MD, FRCPC

Ashley A Duckett, MD, FHM

¹Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²General Internal Medicine and...
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