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Growing together: How Sound creates a culture of leadership

Sound Physicians

The expertise and thoughtfulness that our leaders bring to our patients, teams, and, most importantly, our hospital partners is not something that just happens. It is, by design, built into the ways we educate, train, and support our clinical leadership. Great patient care starts with great clinician leadership.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.

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Episode 262: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 18 – Remedying Health Inequities Driven by the Carceral System

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Providing communities with the resources they need to survive, such as educational opportunities, jobs, and quality healthcare, will eliminate the need for incarceration. Heard-Garris draws parallels between the culture within the carceral system and that within hospitals and clinics.

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Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to… Differentiate between stigma and bias in health care and the electronic health record using provided examples. Describe difficulties and examples of how to measure unconscious race bias in medical practice.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice. Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Michele Nypaver, MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA michelen@med.umich.edu Jennifer Thull-Freedman, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jennifer.Thull-Freedman@albertahealthservices.ca

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You don’t need to order comprehensive viral panels for most patients

PEMBlog

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Olivia Ostrow, MD Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ontario, Canada olivia.ostrow@sickkids.ca A negative test can also provide false reassurance. Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e.,