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Publishing your QI project

Enlist mentors, colleagues to help navigate the path to a polished manuscript

How do you know if your quality improvement project is a candidate for publication? More

Not a time for modesty

Hospitalists share strategies for proving value

With the economy shaky and hospital budgets tight, hospitalists are being asked more and more to prove their worth. Value may be the word that hospital administrators and consultants use to describe what hospitalists are being expected to demonstrate, but what it boils down to is this: Are hospitalists earning their keep? More

Surviving seven on/seven off

Love it or loathe it, the seven days on/seven days off schedule is gaining traction among hospitalist programs. Experts discuss its pluses and pitfalls and share some strategies for success.

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ACP program introduces leadership skills to young members

ACP’s LEAD program (Leadership Enhancement and Development) grew out of the realization that training physicians in leadership skills would benefit both physicians and the College. ACP Hospitalist talked to Erik Wallace, FACP, who led the inaugural LEAD precourse at Internal Medicine 2008.
December '08

Fight burnout while fostering experience
Investing in hospitalist programs now can pay off later.
July '08

Striving for 100% customer satisfaction

Hospitalist leaders debate the costs and benefits of patient satisfaction surveys
As patient satisfaction figures more prominently in health care and quality measurement, some worry that hospitals' standard patient satisfaction surveys don’t accurately measure hospitalist care. How should hospitalists prepare for future use of satisfaction data?
July '08

Comanagement commandments
Keep consultation relationships well-defined to avoid problems down the road
June '08

Find chemistry with your Yoda
Mentoring experts offer advice for making the right match.
June '08

Becoming a better ward attending
Two experts discuss 10 modifiable behaviors
May '08

Committee work can help your career, but be sure to choose wisely
March '08

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• Study suggests stress tests to diagnose low-risk chest pain are overused
• Score predicts hemorrhage risk in ischemic stroke patients treated with thrombolysis

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