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Bridging the divide between the hospital and primary care

Phyllis Maguire - November 6, 2018

Does that patient really need to be admitted?

Phyllis Maguire - November 6, 2018

Getting virtual care off the ground

Phyllis Maguire - November 6, 2018

What’s in your incentive plan?

Deborah Gesensway - November 2018

NOVEMBER 2018

Reality check

Patient Safety Today's Hospitalist - November 2018

2017: the worst flu year in decades

News Briefs Today's Hospitalist - November 2018

Readers weigh in on VTE prophylaxis, critical care

Letters Today's Hospitalist - November 2018

Practice Closeups

Career Today's Hospitalist - November 2018

Your compensation and our anniversary

From The Editor Edward Doyle - November 2018

Commentary

“Doctor, I am just double-checking … “

Today's Hospitalist - November 6, 2018

Published in the November 2018 issue of Today's Hospitalist I WAS RECENTLY seeing a rather complicated medical patient in the hospital. We were treating both a heart and kidney condition, trying to balance hydration with the need to get rid...

Cardiac care

Over-diagnosing MIs? Low-key feedback can help

Paula S. Katz - February 2018

Published in the February 2018 Today's Hospitalist AN INFORMAL COMMUNICATION APPROACH has been the linchpin of an intervention to successfully reduce possible over-diagnosing of myocardial...

Are you over-testing troponins?

September 2017

Overprescribing IV antihypertensives?

May 2016

What you can do to improve resuscitation

September 2015

Conflicting therapies for heart failure patients

April 2015

Patient flow

How to streamline discharges

Phyllis Maguire - October 8, 2018

The (many) problems with transfers

Deborah Gesensway - September 10, 2018

SNF bouncebacks: Which patients are at high risk?

July 2018

Readmissions and resource-strapped patients

June 2018

Trends in patient volumes for hospitalists

June 2018

Want to succeed with unit-based care?

April 2018

2017 in review

December 2017

Preventing readmissions

October 2017

Quality improvement

Want to dive into QI? Nail down a template first

Phyllis Maguire - July 2018

Published in the July 2018 issue of Today's Hospitalist AT FIRST GLANCE, a template may be hard to get excited about. But that's exactly what...

SEP-1: Does it improve sepsis care?

March 2018

How to deliver more cost-conscious care

November 2017

Patient satisfaction

Moving beyond small talk to real issues

Deborah Gesensway - December 2017

Published in the December 2017 issue of Today's Hospitalist DOCTORS KNOW that patients are more than a collection of symptoms and clinical complaints, but that...

Don’t buy into HCAHPS? Homegrown surveys can help

October 2017

Really improving patient experience

October 2017

Coding

Billing ED services

Sue A. Lewis, RN, CPC, PCS - August 2018

Switching inpatient to obs: How do you bill?

Sue A. Lewis, RN, CPC, PCS - May 2018

The accidental psychiatrist

David A. Frenz, MD - February 2018

Billing observation: initial care and consults

Sue A. Lewis, RN, CPC, PCS - January 2018

Predicting death and other bad things

David A. Frenz, MD - December 2017

Infectious Disease

Tackling skin and soft tissue infections

Phyllis Maguire - December 2017

Published in the December 2017 issue of Today's Hospitalist WHEN IT COMES TO skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs), several randomized controlled trials published in...

ID emergencies

August 2017

C. diff infections: Going from “worst in the nation” to “best...

August 2017

Prescribing too many antibiotics?

February 2017

Last Month's Issue

Cutting back on unnecessary telemetry

October 2018

Patients staying beyond discharge? How to bill

October 2018

How to streamline discharges

October 2018

Who owns what in patient metrics?

October 2018

Keeping your heart in medicine

October 2018

A capital idea

October 2018

Time’s Up: #MeToo in medicine

October 2018

What nonclinical duties do you perform?

October 2018

Telemetry: Breaking up is hard to do

October 2018

Editor's Picks

A crisis in critical care

July 2018

Physician suicide: going beyond wellness

July 2018

Time to scale back VTE prophylaxis?

August 2018

NPs/PAs in hospital medicine

July 2018

Hospital at home

August 2018

What’s the evidence? Weak at best

September 2018

Recruiting is everyone’s job No. 1

July 2018

SNF bouncebacks: Which patients are at high risk?

July 2018

Archives

Addiction Medicine

A pragmatic approach to treating opioid use disorders in the hospital

Deborah Gesensway - July 2016

Published in the July 2016 issue of Today's Hospitalist. AS HOSPITALISTS know full well, an unprecedented number of hospitalized patients suffer from a comorbid opioid...

Career

The white coats vs. the blue suits

Phyllis Maguire - July 2017

Published in the July 2017 issue of Today's Hospitalist IN 2016, a blog posted on the KevinMD site by a guest commentator detailed what the...

Hot Topics

“Doctor, I am just double-checking … “

Today's Hospitalist - November 2018

Published in the November 2018 issue of Today's Hospitalist I WAS RECENTLY seeing a rather complicated medical patient in the hospital. We were treating both...

Satisfaction/Burnout

Are you happy?

Today's Hospitalist - August 2018

Published in the August 2018 issue of Today's Hospitalist WANT MORE DATA about hospitalist pay, work hours and more? Check out our 2017 Salary Survey Results. Interested...

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