January/February 2023
A NEW STUDY found that sending automated texts to patients in the 30 days after discharge reduced patients’ use of acute care resources, including readmissions and visits to the ED.
A study in JAMA Network Open looked at an automated...
Patient Safety
Study: Fall-prevention program reduces falls and costs
NEW DATA SHOW that a well-known fall-prevention program can not only reduce the number of patients who fall while in the hospital, but lower...
Career
Nocturnists are paid more, but they don’t get all the perks
YOU PROBABLY KNOW that nocturnists earn more money for working fewer shifts than their daytime colleagues, but our latest survey of hospitalists shows that...
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
February 3, 2023
The covid health emergency will end this spring
The Biden administration announced...
Clinical
How one health system reduced the use of daily tests for...
A GROUP of New York City hospitals found a way to reduce the repeated use of inflammatory marker testing in non-ICU COVID-19 hospitalized patients.
In...
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News Briefs
Delayed malpractice lawsuits are ramping up again
Delayed malpractice lawsuits are ramping up again
THE PANDEMIC caused a lot of delays in health care, with patients putting off elective surgeries and visits...
Patient Flow
Discharge rounds redesigned
AT BAYLOR SCOTT AND WHITE All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, hospitalist medical director Ijeoma Carol Nwelue, MD, lists ways in which...
Satisfaction/Burnout
Program directors: gender gap and career longevity
The 2022 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey found that program directors reported a mean compensation in 2021 of $377,730 (median $350,000). That’s an...
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...
