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May 2013
Rethinking IV haloperidol orders
April 2013
A new workflow
March 2013
Why don't more patients get VTE prophylaxis?
February 2013
Cutting readmission rates in half
January 2013
Going in-house
December 2012
Tackling low patient satisfaction scores
November 2012
Toward detente with the ED
October 2012
How to take the squabbling out of scheduling
September 2012
Getting to "no"
August 2012
Making headway with hospital at home
July 2012
Scripting tough talks
June 2012
High-tech handwashing
May 2012
Taking a team approach to admissions
April 2012
Rx to go
March 2012
A new kind of RVU
February 2012
Have iPad—can travel
January 2012
Pharmacists head off anticoagulation complications
December 2011
How to improve door-in-door-out times
November 2011
Making a dent in heart failure readmissions
October 2011
Getting serious about fall prevention
September 2011
Breaking the Foley habit
August 2011
How to move patients through the ED
July 2011
Preventing delirium
June 2011
A new approach to alcohol withdrawal
May 2011
A SWEET-FIX for stroke patients
April 2011
Better safety through scanning
March 2011
Moving the needle on satisfaction scores
February 2011
Drowning in paper and e-mail? A Wiki works
January 2011
Saving time with smartphones
December 2010
Winning the war on C. diff
November 2010
A solution for medication reconciliation
October 2010
How to end the handoff free-for-all
September 2010
How to contain an outbreak
August 2010
The big payoff with virtual telemetry
July 2010
Who are you going to call?
May 2010
Directing traffic
April 2010
Making deep cuts in ED response time
March 2010
Taking the scut work out of comanagement
February 2010
Embedding a hospitalist in the ED
January 2010
Pairing physicians for better communication
December 2009
Making TV a teachable moment for patients
November 2009
Small changes promote better sleep
October 2009
Medicine that comes with a “warranty”
September 2009
Medication reconciliation done right
August 2009
Developing leaders: much more than lip service
July 2009
Making night coverage work
June 2009
Taking a bite out of readmissions
May 2009
Doctors bring same-day service to treadmill testing
April 2009
Cutting down on “wasted beds” eases gridlock
March 2009
For one hospitalist group, talk isn’t cheap
February 2009
Hospitalists score big with “black-belt QI”
January 2009
Re-engineering the “voltage drop”
December 2008
Bringing “a light touch” to prescribing guidelines
November 2008
A musical Rx for palliative care
October 2008
One hospital’s solution to being overwhelmed at night
September 2008
Competing hospitals get ahead by playing nice
August 2008
One hospital’s success with VTE screening
July 2008
One program’s big payoff from “an extra set of eyes”
June 2008
New options for handling disruptive patients
May 2008
How to make your point with pictures
April 2008
One hospital’s successful efforts to vanquish pressure ulcers
March 2008
Supervising procedures: too important to leave to residents?
February 2008
Hospitalists “geriatricize” the discharge process
January 2008
How to put your staffing in synch with admissions
December 2007
How to make rapid flu tests work in the hospital setting
November 2007
Strategies for teaching handoffs to housestaff
October 2007
E-mails push patient sign-outs beyond the hospital walls
September 2007
A quick response to hospitals’ “dirty little secret”: inpatient strokes
August 2007
How pop-up reminders can boost your score on quality measures
July 2007
How one hospital reduced waiting times for PICCs
June 2007
How one portal functions as a gateway to information and referrals
May 2007
When time is money, you need a better way to divvy up patients
April 2007
It's a match: Creating hospitalist-midlevel teams brings big benefits
March 2007
Wristband initiative gives patient safety a new palette
February 2007
One Boston hospital gives executive walk rounds a grassroots twist
January 2007
Lessons learned from tracking medication reconciliation at three hospitals
December 2006
One hospital gets big results with a new type of rapid response team
November 2006
To help with hand-offs, this group adapted a sign-off system for nurses
October 2006
To prevent ordering errors, one hospital is bringing “read backs” to the bedside
September 2006
Building a better safety net to detect—and prevent—medication errors
August 2006
How one hospital slashed its rate of drug events without breaking the bank
July 2006
To keep nurses in the loop, this hospital gave them access to its sign-out system
June 2006
How a “shift coupon” can help hospitals learn more about adverse events
May 2006
One hospital is making mentoring worthwhile for its physicians
April 2006
Reducing central-line infections? Start with the little things
March 2006
To keep its physicians sharp, one group is trying new ways to educate hospitalists
February 2006
Teaching residents to take a new view of quality improvement
January 2006
One hospital finds that a light touch is the best way to improve quality
December 2005
How working with family members can improve care in the ICU
November 2005
Rigorous review of quality improvement yields surprising results
October 2005
A new role for hospitalists: overseeing the transfer of patients within a hospital system
September 2005
Declaring victory in the war against drug errors, if only for a month
August 2005
What hospitalists can learn from a computer-based alert to prevent inpatient DVT
July 2005
How a shock team can detect and treat critical illness earlier
June 2005
Tired of tracking down patient information by hand, one resident found a better way
May 2005
When it comes to improving patient care, redundancy is not a bad thing
April 2005
How a “ticket home” can help streamline the discharge process
March 2005
Taking a page from nuclear power to improve patient safety
February 2005
A best-practice makeover to fine-tune VAP prevention
January 2005
How one health system encourages staff to give its patients a “safe passage”
December 2004
If ordinary DRGs don’t give you enough detail, try this set of codes
November 2004
How a medical response team can help patients before they code
October 2004
How one hospital is bringing residents into its quality improvement efforts
August 2004
One strategy to keep community-acquired pneumonia out of the hospital
June 2004
How one mentoring program helps young physicians grow as hospitalists
May 2004
How software helped solve a hospitalist–specific problem
April 2004
One Santa Fe group is putting the spotlight on diagnosing and treating osteoporosis
March 2004
How one group of hospitalists helped streamline the admissions process
February 2004
To boost admissions (and do the right thing), these hospitalists took on nursing home duties
January 2004
The ‘warm and fuzzy’ approach to explaining hospitalists
December 2003
Communication at the core of a Maine group's success
December 2005
How working with family members can improve ICU care
November 2005
A quality improvement study yields some surprising results
October 2005
A new role for hospitalists: coordinating patient transfers
September 2005
One hospital's victory in the war against drug errors
August 2005
Lessons learned from a computer alert to prevent DVT
July 2005
How a shock team can help identify critical illness earlier
June 2005
A better way to collect information for rounds
May 2005
When improving patient care, redundancy is not a bad thing
April 2005
Streamlining the discharge process
March 2005
Nuclear power's contribution to improve patient safety
February 2005
A best-practice makeover for VAP prevention
January 2005
How one health system provides "safe passage" for patients
December 2004
If ordinary DRGs don't give you enough detail, try this set of codes
November 2004
How a medical response team can help patients before they code
October 2004
Bringing residents into quality improvement efforts
September 2004
Need an attitude adjustment on the wards? Try "walk rounds"
August 2004
One strategy to keep community-acquired pneumonia out of the hospital
June/July 2004
How one mentoring program helps young physicians grow as hospitalists
March 2004
Streamlining the admissions process
February 2004
To boost admissions, hospitalists take on nursing home duties
January 2004
The 'warm and fuzzy' approach to explaining hospitalists
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