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12. Health Care Quality and Improvement Hospital …

The quality movement has arisen from several concerning observations and areas of research in healthcare, including: 1. Dramatic and often inexplicable … See more

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05. Care of Specific Patient Populations Hospital Handbook

WEBHomelessness is a public health crisis in many places in the United States as a result of increasing housing prices, displacement, and lack of safety net policies. Increased …

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05. Advance Care Planning Hospital Handbook

WEB05. Advance Care Planning. Resident Editor: Scott Goldberg, MD, Sarah Knish, MD. Faculty Editor: Michael W. Rabow, MD and Christine Soran, MD, MPH. BOTTOM LINE. …

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07. Informed Consent and Refusal Hospital Handbook

WEBInformed consent is a shared decision-making process between the patient and physician. It is the disclosure of appropriate information to a patient who is permitted to make a …

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10. Patient Safety and Errors Hospital Handbook

WEBSystems Errors Human Errors Organizational. Technical. Practitioner. Patient. Management. Equipment. Skill based. Patient characteristics. Culture Rule based

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13. High Value Care Hospital Handbook

WEBProviding patients with the best care at lower costs; often defined by quality divided by costs. The consideration of value should include outcomes (or quality of care), patient …

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01. Assessing Quality of Life and Goals of Care Hospital …

WEBAssessing Quality of Life. There are two central concepts to bear in mind when assessing a patient’s quality of life: QOL is multidimensional and can only be truly determined by the …

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01. Psychosocial Interventions and Harm Reduction

WEBMotivational interviewing is a strategy of counseling for behavior change that elicits “change talk” from patients so that patients’ own motivation drives their plans to change. This …

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06. Prognosis Hospital Handbook

WEBOverview of Prognostication. Prognosis is a prediction for a particular future outcome (survival, functional status or quality of life) based on a person’s medical condition. …

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01. The Hospitalist Hospital Handbook

WEBAdvantages to the hospitalist model of medicine include greater inpatient physician availability, increased emphasis on hospital-wide safety and quality improvement efforts, …

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04. Hypernatremia Hospital Handbook

WEBHypernatremia is most often due to inadequate water intake (relative to water output), occasionally from excess sodium intake, and rarely from diabetes insipidus. Mainstay of …

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03. Functional Status Hospital Handbook

WEBBackground. Functional status is more informative than age alone. Functional status and decline are often predictors of death, falls, hospitalizations, postoperative complications, …

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09. Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Hospital Handbook

WEBSexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) Faculty Editor: Luis Rubio, MD. BOTTOM LINE. STIs are common and often asymptomatic. Yearly screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea …

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03. Erectile Dysfunction Hospital Handbook

WEBBackground. · Erectile dysfunction (ED) is defined as inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance. Causes can be vascular, …

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12. Home Visit Guide Hospital Handbook

WEB12. Home Visit Guide. 2018 Resident Editor: John Landefeld, M.D. Faculty Editor: Carla Perissinotto, M.D. BOTTOM LINE. There is a large and growing need for HBPC, …

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06. Decision Making Capacity Hospital Handbook

WEBDefinitions. Competency: a legal term regarding an individual’s ability to make their own decisions. Assessment of competency requires a judge and formal hearing. Decision …

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05. Tuberculosis Hospital Handbook

WEBTuberculosis. 05. Tuberculosis. Resident Editors: Sharmin Shekarchian, Allison Kwong, David Nguyen, MD. Faculty Editors: Alia Chisty, Jennifer Babik MD. BOTTOM LINE. TB …

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14. Clinical Teaching On The Wards Hospital Handbook

WEBTeach clinical reasoning, which can be as valuable as teaching clinical content. Use clinical cases, involvement of learners in decision-making, and explicit discussion of clinical …

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08. Motivational Interviewing for Behavioral Change

WEBBottom Line: MI is a brief, directive, patient-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping people to explore and resolve ambivalence. The core to MI is a focus …

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