January/February 2021
A line team takes charge of placing lines in the covid ICU
WITH COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS dropping nationally and on the west coast, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has just put one of its most successful pandemic innovations on...
Hospitalists: front and center in vaccination efforts
WHILE THE EFFORT to vaccinate Americans against covid has been chaotic for many, one health system in Florida has had a very different experience....
Covid News Updates
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Coding
Social admissions and prolonged services
We are treating a 59-year-old with general cognitive decline who is currently uninsured. (His Medicaid application and hearing are pending.) While he has long...
How many patient encounters do hospitalists see per shift—and what number do they think is reasonable? According to data from the 2019 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey, hospitalists as a group see an average of just under 17 patient...
Compensation
Is your local job market heating up or cooling off?
WITH ED VISITS evaporating and elective procedures suspended in the first months of the pandemic, the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville,...
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
Misdiagnoses: a daily occurrence
Today's Hospitalist received the following from a hospitalist, who highlights his own sense of despair at not being able to fix a deteriorating situation.
Did...
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...
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Technology
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
Is your local job market heating up or cooling off?
WITH ED VISITS evaporating and elective procedures suspended in the first months of the pandemic, the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville,...
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
Maintaining your mental health during covid
ASK DEAN DALILI, MD, about the struggles that hospitalists have faced during the pandemic, and he talks about the bravery and resilience of hospitalists...
Career Center
Maintaining your mental health during covid
ASK DEAN DALILI, MD, about the struggles that hospitalists have faced during the pandemic, and he talks about the bravery and resilience of hospitalists...