December 2010
Is the hot job market cooling off?
This year’s crop of great studies
Patient satisfaction and the code-status “talk”
New hospitalists and the “parent trap”
Adverse events in Medicare patients
November 2010
Productivity: Are you keeping pace?
Steering clear of malpractice trouble
How to stop heart failure patients from bouncing back
A solution for medication reconciliation
Coming soon: mandatory flu vaccination?
Billing for prolonged services
How much is that bed on the ward?
Hospital medicine’s sickest flow
Daily census: How many is too many?
Hospital medicine’s sickest flow
Taking a critical look at the evidence
The gender gap in compensation
Dabigatran receives FDA approval
More on serving as an expert witness
How hard are you working, and what are you getting paid?
October 2010
Neurosurgery: the last comanagement frontier
What’s happening with hospitalist compensation?
IV insulin on the floor: not so scary after all
How to end the handoff free-for-all
How hospitalists can bill for consults and admissions
A look at comanagement and critical care
“The Real Hospitalists of New Jersey”
When is the time right for around-the-clock coverage?
Have you hugged a subspecialist today?
Comanagement: a constant in hospital medicine
September 2010
Chest pain centers: opportunity knocking?
How do hospitalists fit into HIV care?
Finally, some good news about CPOE
Consultants: their proper care and feeding
Coding for consults and readmissions
Stethoscope hygiene: a brand new bag
Most physicians end up being sued
Is the physical exam necessary?
It slices, it dices, it denies
Getting hospitalists (and medical staff) up to speed
August 2010
Sleep apnea: not just an outpatient problem any more
The big payoff with virtual telemetry
Getting the most out of the humble whiteboard
Still scribbling? Watch your payments shrivel
How safe are you from malpractice claims?
COPD: (not) evidence-based care
Dr. Sudoku: making scheduling manageable
Do you report impaired colleagues?
Who wants the patient with Insurance?!
Does better value mean more money?
July 2010
Success with midlevels: How does your group stack up?
Getting creative with compensation
C. difficile, not MRSA, is now the leading pathogen in some hospitals
Making sure your patients stay admitted
Obesity: avoiding the “teachable moment”
Warfarin dosing: Any role for genetic testing?
Hospitalist leadership: How many hats can you wear?
Certification: not tough enough?
No shortcuts to success with midlevels
June 2010
Having problems finding your patients?
The brave new world of information technology
Neurologic fallout in ICU patients
Strategies for dealing with drug-seeking patients
How should you bill an AMA discharge?
Opting for experience in a young physicians’ field
Early follow-up cuts heart failure readmissions
Thriving on chaos, or settling down?
May 2010
Hospitals want more from their hospitalists. Will your group survive?
Common mistakes in treating acute heart failure (and what to do differently)
Exposing “blind spots” in diabetes screening
“Hey, are you the no-doc doc tonight?”
Translating a diagnosis into RVUs
Is a hospital medicine fellowship right for you?
A look at hospitalist benefits
Medication reconciliation: It takes a village
Medication reconciliation: It takes a village
Is your hospital married to your hospitalist program?
April 2010
Making the move from IV to PO antibiotics
Making deep cuts in ED response time
The finer points of billing for observation
Med rec errors rampant at admission
“You might be a hospitalist … “
When do children become adults?
Working with midlevels: another view
March 2010
Direct admissions: VIP treatment or risky business?
Say what? Issues with hospital interpreters
Taking the scut work out of comanagement
Working with midlevels: a new note of caution
Uncompleted procedures? Here’s how to bill
A look at hospitalist bonuses and incentives
One person’s trash is another one’s gold
High mortality rates found for stroke patients
The debate over direct admissions
February 2010
Need to calm down a frustrated patient?
Health-plan hospitalists cut readmissions by sometimes leaving the hospital
Anemia: not just an outpatient problem anymore
Embedding a hospitalist in the ED
Conflicting evidence on beta-blockers
Confused when billing concurrent care?
A look at hospitalist coding patterns
The death of the doctors’ lounge
“Glorified housestaff” revisited
Hospital medicine’s evolution into post-acute care
January 2010
Consult codes are going away (we think)
Making sure information doesn’t fall through the cracks
Pairing physicians for better communication
The new year’s big news in coding: ICD-9 codes for gout, embolism, thrombosis, and…
A look at growth in hospitalist group staffing
The growing threat from CA MRSA
Reconsidering patients who go AMA