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...
FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, Neetu Mahendraker, MD, lead academic hospitalist for the Indiana University Health System in Indianapolis, has worked to develop a...
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Learning from Covid: How one health system reduced the use of daily tests for covid inpatients
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Long covid has become "disability roulette"
The CDC reports that the number of covid...
"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...
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...
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...
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...