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How many weekday and weekend shifts do hospitalists work in an average month? According to data from the 2019 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey, hospitalists on average work just under 16 weekday shifts a month and 3.57 weekend...
New data find reduced bleeding risk for DOACs in extended VTE prophylaxis
Recent studies have shown that oral anticoagulants can decrease VTE risk when used for extended prophylaxis, but physicians have worried—rightly so—that the bleeding risks outweighed the benefits of...
Use of Procalcitonin (PCT) in Patients Presenting with Overlapping Symptom
B·R·A·H·M·S PCT is an invaluable marker to help assess presence or absence of a bacterial infection and can be used as an aid in antibiotic therapy for patients with suspected or confirmed LRTI. This webinar reviews the utility of PCT in the emergency department or inpatient hospital settings, and describes perspectives of three different clinicians and their approach to implementing this biomarker in clinical practice.
Learning objectives:
• Use PCT to distinguish CHF from pneumonia in patients with dyspnea• Apply PCT to clinical decision making guiding antibiotic use for patients with acute exacerbations of COPD• Compare high yield applications of PCT in different hospital settings (ED and inpatient wards).
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Coding
What’s your payer mix?
BACK IN JANUARY, I wrote a cautionary column about the various financial pressures squeezing hospitals ("Stress test on economic trends" ). I'm continuing the...
Compensation
Is the bull market for compensation over?
HOSPITALISTS HAVE GROWN used to continual and dramatic pay raises. A decade ago, for instance, mean hospitalist compensation hovered around $200,000, while today it's...
On the Wards
Cut back on antibiotics in pneumonia inpatients
A GROWING NUMBER of randomized trials and systematic reviews continues to confirm that "shorter is better" when it comes to treating pneumonia with antibiotics,...
Commentary
Clinical
C. diff walks into a hospital …
HOSPITALS CONTINUE to marshal resources to control patients with symptomatic C. difficile, using contact precautions with gowns and gloves along with scrupulous hand hygiene...
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Note bloat: problems with cut and paste
AS MEDICAL DIRECTOR of the hospitalist program at Aspirus Wausau Hospital in Wausau, Wis., Steven Phillipson, MD, has long known that note bloat and...
Career
Communication skills mitigate conflict
MS. SMITH is a 35-year-old admitted overnight with the very painful skin condition hidradenitis suppurativa. You're meeting her for the first time, and you've...
By the Numbers
What’s your payer mix?
BACK IN JANUARY, I wrote a cautionary column about the various financial pressures squeezing hospitals ("Stress test on economic trends" ). I'm continuing the...
Satisfaction/Burnout
A look at hospitalist job satisfaction
HOW SATISFIED are hospitalists with their careers? According to data from the 2018 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey, 84% of hospitalists say they’re...
Career Center
Hospitalist ROI
AS CHAIR OF the Society of Hospital Medicine's practice management committee, Andrew A. White, MD, a hospitalist with University of Washington in Seattle, is...