December 2011
Nocturnists: Soaring volumes mean trouble at night
What you need to know to prescribe dabigatran
It’s the end of the world as we know it
“A vote for DeLue is a vote for you!”
A look at who hospitalists work for
How to improve door-in-door-out times
Fewer duplicate orders with CPOE? You may see more
In hospital-acquired anemia, blood draws are suspect
November 2011
Teaching and nonteaching services: Separate no more?
Productivity: What’s your sweet spot?
How to bill for subsequent observation care
How many of your hospital’s patients do you admit?
What curbs readmissions? Apparently, not much
Making a dent in heart failure readmissions
When comanagement is mismanagement
October 2011 Compensation and Career Guide
Your pay is rising, but so are expectations
October 2011
The Resident (with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe)
A look at nonphysician providers
How soon is too soon to leave a new job?
The high price of new duty-hour rules
Getting serious about fall prevention
September 2011
Do hospitalists really cost more?
Quality: You know it when you see it
My most indelible memory as a doctor
A “good discharge” doesn’t mean fewer readmissions
The best patient satisfaction survey ever!
Not all transfer patients are created equal
Making headway with difficult patients
How to move patients through the ED faster
What to zero in on for hip fracture patients
August 2011
Hospital medicine’s age deficit
Once-a-day pill approved for DVT prevention
A look at recruitment incentives
How to move patients through the ED
Preop evaluations: which risk-reduction strategies work?
July 2011
The best patient satisfaction survey ever!
Options for geographic units and multidisciplinary rounds
How group structure affects outcomes
Checklists: the good, the bad and the in-between
Protecting patients – and nurses
National demand for hospitalists still strong
Hospital medicine: a long-term career?
Don’t retire that (dirty) white coat
Time to get aggressive about periop MIs
Answers to frequent ID questions
June 2011
Health reform is coming. Are you ready to BULK UP?
What is your role in preventing and treating falls?
Think you can predict readmissions? Think again
Difficult patients and families
A look at career satisfaction and burnout
The buzz: It’s going to get busy
A big jump in hospitalist subsidies
A new approach to alcohol withdrawal
The finer points of billing observation
Letting patients hit the panic button
Toward a lower troponin cutoff
May 2011
Should you be rewarded for your years on the job?
Family practice and hospital medicine
Want to reduce AMI mortality? Think “culture”
The new wave of physician employment
A SWEET-FIX for stroke patients
A look at hospitalist services and procedures
Getting stronger by getting bigger
Focused practice passes its first class
When pain management proves fatal
Leadership lessons for young physicians
April 2011
Do hospitals need more outsiders?
How hospitals reduce AMI mortality
Better safety through scanning
Making the case for a higher-level admission
What’s behind women’s pay gap?
A look at hospitalist incentives
March 2011
Is your hospital getting crowded?
More on family practice and hospital medicine
Moving the needle on patient satisfaction scores
A tray kit brings evidence into design
Racial gaps in readmission rates
Wiping out postop MRSA infections
Hospital medicine and health care reform
Answers to key questions on treating pneumonia
February 2011
Admissions from the ED: Are patients leaving too fast or too slow
Family practice and hospital medicine
Drowning in paper and e-mail? A Wiki works
Mixed results on the impact of comanagement
Hospitalists as bean counters?
The CMS proposes value-based incentives
What’s included in critical care codes?
Results are in: Gainsharing works
Dermatology for hospitalists: the OK, the bad and the really bad
January 2011
Are you OK admitting this patient?
On the horizon in hospital medicine
Multitasking: How do I shut it off?
Brilliant ideas and common pitfalls
Taking a snapshot of your readmissions
When comanagement becomes an admission
Hospitalist comanagement: no improved outcomes
More than one doctor? It gets complicated
Checklists: not just ticking off boxes
From disaster site to “fantasy land”
Diagnoses are liability problem No. 1