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Frontline Account: Targeting Hot Spotters in an Internal Medicine Residency Clinic

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program for supporting resident involvement in BPC and the Osler Center for Clinical Excellence at Johns Hopkins for its institutional grant. We acknowledge Dr. Scott Berkowitz for his efforts to include residents in JCHiP planning. We further acknowledge Drs. Justin Elfrey, Ryan Childers, Huy Do, and Lauren Graham for their leadership in implementing the BPC project and Dr. Randy Barker for his mentorship and inspiration. We have presented an overview of the intervention, and subsequently its outcomes on resident education, as oral presentations during the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meetings in 2012 and 2013, respectively.

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Institutional grant awarded from the Osler Center for Clinical Excellence at Johns Hopkins.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Melissa Dattalo MD, MPH, Stephanie Nothelle MD, Sean Tackett MD, Fernanda Porto-Carreiro MD, Eunice Yu MD & Laura A. Hanyok MD

  2. Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Melissa Dattalo MD, MPH

  3. Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Memorial VA Hospital, Madison, WI, USA

    Melissa Dattalo MD, MPH

  4. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA

    Marc Larochelle MD

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Affiliated with Johns Hopkins Bayview June 2009–June 2013 during the events in this manuscript.

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Dattalo, M., Nothelle, S., Tackett, S. et al. Frontline Account: Targeting Hot Spotters in an Internal Medicine Residency Clinic. J GEN INTERN MED 29, 1305–1307 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-014-2861-6

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