HOW DID HOSPITALISTS do when it came to getting pandemic bonuses? Data from the 2022 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey show that just under one-quarter of hospitalists—21%—received one of these bonuses, and that the average amount was under $8,000.
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Patient Safety
Should you board patients in inpatient hallways?
In 2008, an American College of Emergency Physicians task force released a report on high-impact solutions to ED boarding. Item No. 1 on the solutions...
Career
A look at career satisfaction levels among hospitalists
LOOK AT THE TOP-LEVEL statistics for job satisfaction among hospitalists, and the numbers don't look so bad. A huge majority—82%, to be precise—reported in...
Infectious Disease
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Learning from Covid: How one health system reduced the use of daily tests for covid inpatients
March 25, 2023
What will change in health care as the pandemic winds down?
With...
Clinical
“Diagnostic stewardship” prevents unneeded antibiotic prescribing
"DIAGNOSTIC STEWARDSHIP" may be a term that many hospitalists aren't familiar with. But according to Valerie Vaughn, MD, MSc, director of hospital medicine research...
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News Briefs
Is hospital medicine a brain drain from primary care?
Is hospital medicine a brain drain from primary care?
IT MAY NOT BE breaking news, but the embrace of hospital medicine by young internists suggests...
Patient Flow
Is your ED snarled with boarders?
FOR YEARS, emergency physicians have complained about patients being boarded in the ED, waiting hours or days for a transfer or an inpatient bed....
Satisfaction/Burnout
Unmasking shame in medicine
EMILY SILVERMAN, MD, is having a moment, one that's been years in the making.
In 2016, she founded The Nocturnists to host clinicians telling live...
Coding
The new year brings a shakeup in inpatient E/M codes
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...
