Larry Beresford is an Oakland, Calif.-based freelance medical journalist with a breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, management and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death, and dying. He is a longtime contributor to The Hospitalist, for which he covers re-admissions, pain management, palliative care, physician stress and burnout, quality improvement, waste prevention, practice management, innovation, and technology. He also contributes to Medscape. Learn more about his work at www.larryberesford.com; follow him on Twitter @larryberesford.
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Hospitalization Rates Higher Among Abused Elderly
Battered seniors three times more likely to be hospitalized than their non-abused peers
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Digital Schedule Boards Improve Outcomes at South Carolina Hospitals
Tracking system for patients, surgery schedules, replaces dry-erase boards
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Health-Care Journalists Tackle Barriers to Hospital Safety Records
News group’s Web site offers easy access to hospital information online
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Medical Centers Take Tips from Other Industries
Future hospitalists learning quality improvement techniques proven successful in manufacturing, service sectors
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Is Post-Acute-Care In Your Future?
Long-term-care facilities offer hospitalists career path, chance to impact quality of care
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Technology Is King at HM13 RIV Competition
Research abstracts emphasize technological applications to promote better patient care
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Hospital-to-Home Patient Care Gets a BOOST
Benefits of SHM’s Project BOOST transition care initiative cited by hospitalists
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Hospitalists Get Lessons in Quality Improvement Techniques
SHM annual meeting pre-course focuses on QI implementation, common treatments clinicians should question
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ED Physicians, Hospitalists Can Collaborate More to Optimize Patient Care
Communication beyond brief encounters at handoff could improve patient flow, ED safety, say hospital leaders
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Chief Medical Officer Offers Advice to Multiple HM Groups Working Under Same Roof
Paul Stander, CMO of Banner Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, suggests amicable competition strategies for multiple hospitalist groups in a...
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Competition Keeps Us on Our Toes
Two Virginia HM groups find ways to compete, remain collegial
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Communication Key to Peaceful Coexistence for Competing Hospital Medicine Groups
Encouraging rival hospitalists to work together on committees and clearly defining each group’s territory can alleviate tension
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Thirty-Day Hospital Readmissions Drop in 2012, CMS Reports
Newly implemented Medicare penalties source of lower readmission rates
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Rival Hospitalists Can Bring Havoc, or Healthy Competition to Hospitals
Encouraging competing hospital medicine groups to work together amicably under one roof can be a challenge, say hospital executives
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Bill Seeks to Enhance Patient Access to Post-Hospital Benefit
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act allows patients to utilize institutional skilled nursing care