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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Career Boost a Benefit of Winning SHM’s Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes Poster Competition
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: September 1, 2013
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Hospital to Gauge Health Benefits of Therapeutic Garden
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: August 14, 2013
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Hospitalists Take Care Transitions Into Their Own Hands
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: August 12, 2013
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Listen to Project BOOST lead analyst Luke Hansen, MD, MPH, discuss the outcomes study published in JHM
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: August 1, 2013
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Congressional Budget Office Says Health-Care Inflation Is Slowing
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: August 1, 2013
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Technology Developers Encouraged to Make Hospital Pricing More Transparent
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: August 1, 2013
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Joint Commission Tackles Alarm-Fatigue Risks from Medical Devices
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: August 1, 2013
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Leadership Skills a Priority for Future Hospitalists
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: August 1, 2013
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Hospitals Report 30-Day Readmissions Dip with SHM’s Project BOOST
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: July 31, 2013
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Conway to Head Medicare Innovation Center
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: July 3, 2013
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First-Year Medical School Enrollment to Climb to 21,434 by 2017
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: July 1, 2013
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IPC-UCSF Fellowship for Hospitalist Group Leaders Demands a Stretch
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: July 1, 2013
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Hospital ICUs Chart Progress in Preventing Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: July 1, 2013
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Hospitals' Battle Against Superbugs Goes Robotic
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: July 1, 2013
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Grassroots Efforts to Improve Patient Care
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- Larry Beresford
Publish date: June 26, 2013