Four Ways to Maximize Hospitalist Efficiency in Challenging Times
DURING THE PANDEMIC, hospitals across the country saw an uptick in care complications and hospital-acquired infections. Contributing factors include volume surges, rising patient acuity, clinician burnout, staff shortages, and supply chain issues. Read more here.
HOSPITALS DEVOTE a lot of energy and resources to preventing pressure injuries, one of eight conditions originally flagged in the CMS' 2008 hospital-acquired conditions...
IN MARCH 2020, as covid outbreaks flared throughout the U.S., news articles began detailing the horrendous outcomes befalling patients in some nursing homes and...
A behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine. This month's retrospective focuses on members of society who are in pandemic denial. Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, tackle a variety of stressors, successes and everyday occurrences seen on hospital...
How many patient encounters do hospitalists see per shift—and what number do they think is reasonable? According to data from the 2019 Today’s Hospitalist...
"MUSIC PROMOTER" may seem an unlikely sideline for a full-time hospitalist. But Larry Birger, MD, the founder of a nonprofit for music education and...
DURING THE PANDEMIC, hospitals across the country saw an uptick in care complications and hospital-acquired infections. Contributing factors include volume surges, rising patient acuity, clinician burnout, staff shortages, and supply chain issues. Read more here.
