SHM & Hospital Medicine in the News: December 22, 2016 – January 5, 2017
Check out the latest hospital medicine and SHM-related stories in mainstream and healthcare-centric news. For the full stories, click on the links below:
- Findings from the 2016 State of Hospital Medicine Report, including the high demand for more hospitalists, were highlighted in an article on Medscape.
- Through large-scale experiments, Medicare hopes to prove that better coordination will improve quality and contain costs of hip fracture and heart attack treatment.
- Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM’s blog post, “Count Me – and My Intuition – In,” in which she discusses the importance of learned experience in medicine, was reposted on Medpage Today’s KevinMD.
- Two Journal of Hospital Medicine articles were included in a list of the top 10 hospital medicine stories for 2016 by NEJM Journal Watch.
- The recognition of pediatric hospital medicine as an official subspecialty received honorable mention in MedPage Today’s Top 5 Advances in Pediatrics for 2016.
- SHM member Dr. Susan McAllister was quoted in a story on care transitions that appeared in multiple publications, citing her personal experience on the importance of proper care at home by friends and family following increasingly short hospital stays.
Report: Demand for Hospitalists Continues to Outpace Supply
Demand for hospitalists continues to outpace supply, according to the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM’s) recently released “State of Hospital Medicine” report. On the basis of on a survey of 595 hospital medicine groups, along with compensation data from the Medical Group Management Association’s Physician Compensation Survey, SHM reports that salaries are up an average of 9% from 2014.
December 29, 2016
Medscape
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Medicare Launches Plan to Revamp Care for Heart Attacks and Hip Fractures
Heart attacks and broken hips cause much suffering and worry as people grow older. This year, Medicare wants to start changing how it pays for treatment of these life-threatening conditions, to promote quality and contain costs. Beneficiaries and family members may notice a new approach.
January 2, 2017
STAT
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When Can I Follow My Intuition?
In modern medicine, we’re surrounded by EMR systems, lab tests and increasingly complex medical equipment. But I sometimes stop and wonder: Where does my intuition fit into the equation? Case in point: The other day, I had one of those days that happens in hospital medicine where nothing goes right.
December 24, 2016
KevinMD.com
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NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories of 2016
Dear Readers, We are pleased to bring you our 2016 NEJM Journal Watch Hospital Medicine Top Stories. As usual, our list focuses on inpatient and intensive care topics that most of us see in our daily practice. We hope that you find this list helpful as you reflect on the medical advances that have influenced your practice during 2016.
December 23, 2016
NEJM Journal Watch
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2016’s Top 5 Advances in Pediatrics
MedPage Today asked specialists in Pediatrics around the country to tell us what they thought were the most important clinical developments in 2016. These were the five most commonly mentioned.
December 29, 2016
MedPage Today
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Caregiving Can Have a Steep Learning Curve
“When patients leave the hospital, they generally leave quick and sick,” said Susan McAllister, medical director of quality in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J. McAllister said these days it’s common to come in with a heart attack, get medicine to open a blocked artery, and leave just 48 hours later. The short hospital stay isn’t a problem, she said, but the transition home has to be done right.
December 24, 2016
Herald & Review
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