Mere Mortal MD

MAY 25, 2025

Friday was a special day at the rehabilitation hospital as we had what’s called a “clap out.” ” This is somewhat organized–as in, we will get an overhead page or text when it’s about to happen–and occurs when a patient has been at the hospital for a very long time.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Introduction The requirement of resident scholarship in all residency programs is mandated by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Fulfilling this obligation remains a challenge for residency programs and is often highlighted by the Residency Review Committee (RRC).

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KevinMD

JUNE 21, 2025

I have never been outside my hospital since I joined two months ago. As the only doctor in the oncology department, I cannot take the time to roam around the hospital. The hospital where I work is affiliated with a Read more… How a rainy walk helped an oncologist rediscover joy and bravery originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Our tele-ICU program , which is part of our critical care specialty, has brought meaningful and much-needed intensive care to remote communities for the past five years.

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NPR Health

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

hospitals are conserving critical intravenous fluids to cope with a supply shortage caused by Hurricane Helene. They're changing protocols for administering drugs and hydration through IVs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits.

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Today's Hospitalist

APRIL 24, 2025

LIKE MOST HOSPITALS , Veterans Affairs facilities across the country track admission delays, the amount of time it takes to move a patient who’s being admitted out of the ED and into an inpatient bed. . her health care interests are hospital medicine and long-term care options. reduction. . Based in Bucks County, Pa.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study aims to investigate the effects of SGLT-2 inhibitors on level of cardiovascular risk (evaluate by China-PAR) and hospitalization events in patient with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes. Outcome Measures Changes of China-PAR score and cardiovascular hospitalization events.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. 1.31) and hospitalizations (aIRR 0.74, 95% CI: 0.54-1.02). Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

Endoscopies could be replaced by far less invasive capsule sponge tests for half of all patients with Barrett's esophagus, a known precursor to esophageal cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital and Queen Mary University of London. The research was published in The Lancet.

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NPR Health

JANUARY 24, 2025

Some hospitals are bringing in dogs to spend entire shifts with doctors and nurses. The trained canines help staff cope with the stress of their work amid high levels of burnout. Image credit: Hart Van Denburg)

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Hospital 131

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep. Terri Collins, HB 86 proposes the establishment of a Rural Hospital Investment Program in Alabama, which would serve as a conduit for financial support from the public directed towards rural hospitals in the state.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patient and visit-level data on gender, age, residence location, ambulance arrival, triage category, specialist consultations, ICD-10 discharge diagnosis, and hospital admission were analyzed. Results: In 2022, there were 39,851 ED visits made to the hospital by 32,927 patients. median: 6, IQR: 2.0).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We invited all of the people who are touched by the opioid crisis (addicts, family members of addicts, the faith based community, law enforcement, public health officials, county commissioners, EMS personnel, physicians, hospital representatives, the legal community, etc.) Through a funded grant.

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NPR Health

MARCH 14, 2025

already faced shortages in its health care workforce, then the pandemic spurred even more doctors and nurses to retire or leave hospital jobs. Filling those vacancies is a challenge. Image credit: Natalie Krebs)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Live discharges may be problematic if they lead to high rates of hospice readmissions, high rates of hospital utilization following discharge, or occur after 180 days in hospice. Across all discharges, 43% had at least one ED visit or hospitalization within 6 months of discharge. Medicare routinely reviews U.S. ordering meds).

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 28, 2025

An Australian-first study demonstrating the effectiveness of a new immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for babies found it to be almost 90% effective in reducing hospitalization rates and helped more than 500 WA families avoid a hospital stay.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting The study was conducted at 10 government hospitals in Siaya and Busia Counties in Kenya. Population Studied A total of 1,305 women presenting for CC screening and 50 CC providers at the study hospitals were surveyed.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Sickle cell disease (SCD) was identified as one of our hospital's most common causes of readmission. Healthcare policy reforms should support continuous outpatient care, reducing frequent hospitalizations. We noted that a small number of patients are readmitted multiple times.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In the post-discharge period from hospital acute inpatient care, the older patient is at risk from a lack of joined-up care. Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Though patients/carers are often copied in, they seldom get a plain English version or space to discuss its contents.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) offers rapid, secure access to aggregate counts of patient data from participating hospitals. We have used repeated annual cross-sectional analyses to extract aggregated EHR counts data that included demographics, PPH risk factors and comorbidities in live births during hospital stays.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We compared the odds ratio of patients having >1 emergency department (ER) visit and >1 hospitalization in the post-intervention years (Year 0 and Year +1) in the ARC and 211 arms using logistic regressions, while adjusting for pre-intervention HCU. in Year +1, and for hospitalizations was 1.2 (0.4, in Year 0 and 2.4 (-0.3,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Introduction: Super-utilization (frequent acute hospital care use or frequent emergency department (ED) utilization and readmissions) describes high rates of emergency department visits and hospital admissions by some individuals.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues developed and tested a virtual reality PME cleaning and disinfection training module. also from Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement. Barreto, Ph.D., Shenoy, M.D., ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants: Twenty-six parent participants (eight Somali, ten Hmong, and eight Latin American) of children with serious illness were recruited through local clinics and hospitals. Intervention: NA. Outcome Measures: NA. Results: Parents desired two-way trusting and respectful relationships with medical staff.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. - Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Much has changed in the past six years since our last Health Policy Journal Club at Georgetown. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 14, 2025

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in people experiencing a heart attack is a time-dependent medical emergency requiring immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

A home device that scans someone's feet as soon as they get out of bed in the morning could keep people with heart failure out of hospital, according to research presented Tuesday at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.

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Hospital 75

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record. Population Studied: CUSOM PCPs.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 28, 2025

He completed his Internal Medicine training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital from 2015-2018 accompanied by a focus in Medical Education. Evan Caruso obtained his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2015. Headquartered in Rockville Centre, NY, the company has worked with more than 500 physicians in 29 states.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 27, 2025

Bonuses by teaching status Academic hospitalists: $36,893 Nonacademic hospitalists: $44,123 Incentives by employer type Hospital/hosp. Here’s an overview of incentive pay for different hospitalist groups. corporation: $41,271 Local hospitalist group: $79,000 Multispecialty/primary care: $60,935 Nat.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 21, 2025

Employer type and hospitalist night work Sort our data by the type of group hospitalists work for, and you’ll see that hospitalists employed by hospitals and by national hospitalist management companies work slightly more often at night. Hospitalists at small hospitals (under 100 beds), for example, reported 3.4 night shifts a month.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: A cohort containing a random sample of 5% of the database population of Quebec provincial administrative databases including demographic data, pharmacy claims data, medical consultations, and hospitalizations was used.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: An academic primary care clinic based in a hospital. Study Design and Analysis: Mixed-methods study which adapted simulated patient standardized clinical scenarios from family physician certification oral examinations to include use of the EHR. Population: Ten resident physicians and six staff physicians.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Population: Thirty-six residents from UTSW, Parkland, Children's Hospital, and Texas Health Resources were surveyed. Study design and analysis: Descriptive statistics were used in SPSS to present demographics and responses and Chi-squared tests evaluated relationships between demographics and attitudes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Most practices were clinician owned solo or group practice (n=13), followed by hospital or health system owned (n=6). Results: 23 practices enrolled in virCIS (21 referred patients; 19 had patients enroll in the study). Two practices were FQHCs. 145 patients were referred and 73 patients enrolled in the study (~50% enrollment rate).

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Sound Physicians

JUNE 9, 2025

This post is a summary of that discussion. A patient’s length of stay (LOS) in the hospital impacts so many factors, from reimbursement rates to health outcomes, which is why hospitals and health systems have made it their top priority. So, what’s the best strategy to help reduce length of stay (LOS)?

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