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Failing at heart failure treatment

Failing at heart failure treatment

By Stacey Butterfield

Readmissions for heart failure cause financial problems for hospitals and even more pressing problems for patients. Everyone from Medicare to individual physicians is focused on methods of improvement.

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Homeless inpatients

Hone in on patients without a home

Hone in on patients without a home

By Charlotte Huff

Patients who are homeless or teetering on the verge can present an additional set of logistics for busy hospitalists.

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Q&A: Patrick Alguire, FACP

Core competencies peripheral in practice

Core competencies peripheral in practice

By Stacey Butterfield

The Society of Hospital Medicine considers nine procedures to be “core competencies” for hospitalists, yet many perform them so rarely it would be difficult to maintain competency.

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Coding Corner

Heart failure: The importance of precision

Heart failure: The importance of precision

By Richard D. Pinson, FACP

For coding purposes, it is no longer enough to say that patients have “CHF” or “congestive heart failure.”

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