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Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Driving Practice Change

EvidenceCare

Incorporating peer benchmarks into stewardship huddles can cut unnecessary therapy days and save significant costs. Create Collaboration Forums Initiate regular “Data & Dialogue” rounds where multidisciplinary teams review one high-impact metric—such as unnecessary telemetry days or post-op antibiotic duration.

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Proactive denial management: A revenue game changer for small practices

Medical Economics

For a small practice, each denial means delayed payment and a new round of research and correction. Finally, a weekly huddle lead runs a 15-minute Friday check-in to unblock problems and share trends. If coding errors trace back to thin documentation, update clinical templates and review the fix with providers during a quick huddle.

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Intern Year: A Resident’s Reflections and Advice

Sensible Medicine

Their residency program is where these soon-to-be physicians will spend the next 3-7 years, honing their craft through rigorous and round-the-clock patient care. But for anybody who has been a patient or accompanied a loved one who is ill, it is clear that empathy, compassion, and honesty matter just as much as clinical acumen.

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The Era of Healthcare Grievance: The Edelman Trust Barometer’s Take on Health and Trust in 2025

Health Populi

Globally, most health citizens do not generally trust any institutional group to do what is right to address peoples’ health needs and concerns, with business — the favored trusted institution overall — dropping by 3 percentage points in this round of the research. ranking low among the 16 countries polled.

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Workers Feel “Stuck,” Under-Insured, Financially Stressed, and Neglecting Mental Health

Health Populi

CFPB has assessed how Americans “make ends meet” year after year, this round finding that American consumers’ overall financial stability and well-being eroded from 2023 to 2024. This profile comes from a November report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called Making Ends Meet in 2024.

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The Spirit for Eating Healthier Is Willing, But the Cost of Doing So “Outweighs” the Will – Listening to Escoffier

Health Populi

With that lens, Escoffier recently published a report on the future of healthy eating , which will round out this week’s Health Populi landscape on food and health. Today we turn to the chefs at Escoffier who know food, teach food, and now offer programs in holistic nutrition and wellness through the lens of culinary arts.

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Best Practices for Patient Rounding: Improving Patient Experience

Performance Health

Patient rounding is a pivotal practice in healthcare, significantly influencing the quality of patient care , patient experience , and patient safety.