How a medical journal is navigating the mask wars
THE MASK WARS continued to rage on in the pages of Annals of Internal Medicine this week, with the journal publishing a new editorial...
May/June 2023
SEVEN-ON/SEVEN-OFF scheduling has been a staple of hospital medicine for more than 20 years. While that scheduling model is still the most common, it's definitely more popular among certain types of hospitalists (think younger physicians). It is also more...
WHAT'S A REASONABLE NUMBER of patient encounters per shift, and how many do hospitalists actually have? According to our latest survey data, hospitalists who treat adults have just under 17 patient encounters per shift. By comparison, those hospitalists said...
Patient Safety
Predicting in-hospital mortality
FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, Neetu Mahendraker, MD, lead academic hospitalist for the Indiana University Health System in Indianapolis, has worked to develop a...
Career
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...
Infectious Disease
Check back often as we continue to post timely updates on COVID-19.
Learning from Covid: How one health system reduced the use of daily tests for covid inpatients
June 4, 2023
Long covid has become "disability roulette"
The CDC reports that the number of covid...
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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Past Issues
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
Do early discharges boost throughput?
IT'S BECOME THE GO-TO TACTIC in many hospitals to try to speed up throughput: having hospitalists prioritize early discharges to clear out beds. Morning...
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...
