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Active bed management by hospitalists and emergency department throughputEric Howell
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Ann Intern Med 149:804-11. 2008..When emergency departments are overcrowded, ambulances are diverted. Interventions focused primarily on emergency departments have had limited success...
Hospitalist bed management effecting throughput from the emergency department to the intensive care unitEric Howell
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Crit Care 25:184-9. 2010..Emergency department (ED) patients in need of an intensive care unit (ICU) admission are very sick. Reducing the length of time to get these patients into ICU beds is associated with improved outcomes...
Hospitalists and an innovative emergency department admission processEric E Howell
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:266-8. 2004..Postintervention, admission times averaged 18 minutes for transfer to the ward compared to 2.5 hours preintervention, while pre- and postintervention length of stay and mortality rates remained similar...
A quality improvement intervention to facilitate the transition of older adults from three hospitals back to their homesParam Dedhia
Department of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1540-6. 2009..To study the feasibility and effectiveness of a discharge planning intervention...
A case-based teaching module combined with audit and feedback to improve the quality of consultationsRenee Wright
Collaborative Inpatient Medicine Service, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
J Hosp Med 4:486-9. 2009..Medical consultation is an integral part of hospitalist physicians' practice, yet there is no uniform training to achieve competency in this area during residency...
Morbidity and mortality conference, grand rounds, and the ACGME's core competenciesSteven J Kravet
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1192-4. 2006..When presented at grand rounds in a novel format, M&M conference has not only maintained support for the quality improvement efforts in the Department, but has served to improve the educational impact of the conference...
Peer assessment of professional performance by hospitalist physiciansHarjit K Bhogal
From the Division of Hospital Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
South Med J 105:254-8. 2012..The clinical collaborations among hospitalist physicians create opportunities for peer evaluation. We conducted this study to generate validity evidence for a scale that allows for peer assessment of professional performance...
An innovative approach to supporting hospitalist physicians towards academic successEric Howell
Collaborative Inpatient Medical Service, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Hosp Med 3:314-8. 2008..The appreciable growth of hospital medicine groups in recent years, as has occurred at our institution, compounds the predicament by diluting the limited resources that are available to support these physicians...
Residents' perceptions of professionalism in training and practice: barriers, promoters, and duty hour requirementsNeda Ratanawongsa
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:758-63. 2006..The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hour requirements may affect residents' understanding and practice of professionalism...
What motivates physicians throughout their careers in medicine?Neda Ratanawongsa
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Compr Ther 32:210-7. 2006..Opportunities to maximize self-awareness may allow physicians to structure their work in ways that maximize meaning and fulfillment over the long-term...
Insufficient treatment of hypercholesterolemia among patients hospitalized with chest painEric E Howell
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Cardiol 29:259-62. 2006..This oversight represents a lost opportunity for making an impact on the health of this population...
Female sex: a protective role in suspected myocardial ischemiaCharles A Henrikson
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Coron Artery Dis 17:153-8. 2006..We sought to examine the neglected topic of sex differences in workup and outcomes in the general population presenting with chest pain...
Physician-teacher characteristics associated with learner-centered teaching skillsElizabeth P Menachery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Teach 30:e137-44. 2008..Academic institutions do not have a way to identify physician-teachers who are proficient in learner-centered teaching...
Hospitalist performance of cardiac hand-carried ultrasound after focused trainingL David Martin
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Am J Med 120:1000-4. 2007..Because the training that noncardiologists require to perform cardiac hand-carried ultrasound has not been defined, we studied how well hospitalists perform hand-carried echocardiography after limited training...
Prognostic usefulness of marginal troponin T elevationCharles A Henrikson
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Cardiol 93:275-9. 2004..Marginal elevations of troponin T identified a currently underevaluated high-risk subgroup of patients with suspected myocardial ischemia who are more likely to have adverse clinical outcomes than those with undetectable troponin levels...
Chest pain relief by nitroglycerin does not predict active coronary artery diseaseCharles A Henrikson
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:979-86. 2003..2). CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that, in a general population admitted for chest pain, relief of pain after nitroglycerin treatment does not predict active coronary artery disease and should not be used to guide diagnosis...
