A NEW STUDY found that sending automated texts to patients in the 30 days after discharge reduced patients’ use of acute care resources, including readmissions and visits to the ED.
A study in JAMA Network Open looked at an automated...
IN THE MOST RECENT Today's Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey, we asked advanced practice providers (APPs) to tell us about themselves. It was the...
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Learning from Covid: How one health system reduced the use of daily tests for covid inpatients
January 28, 2023
Tripledemic threat wanes but covid deaths remain high
The threat of a tripledemic—covid,...
A GROUP of New York City hospitals found a way to reduce the repeated use of inflammatory marker testing in non-ICU COVID-19 hospitalized patients.
In...
Delayed malpractice lawsuits are ramping up again
THE PANDEMIC caused a lot of delays in health care, with patients putting off elective surgeries and visits...
The 2022 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey found that program directors reported a mean compensation in 2021 of $377,730 (median $350,000). That’s an...
FOR MORE THAN 20 years, hospitalists have gotten very comfortable with a core set of inpatient and observation evaluation and management (E/M) codes. But...