January/February 2022
2021: Year 2 finally ends
Covid dominated hospital medicine again this year. While it was hard to keep up with all changes the pandemic caused, here are some of this year’s Today’s Hospitalist highlights. Read more here.
Covid News Updates
Check back often as we continue to post timely updates on COVID-19.
Successful pandemic innovations: A line team takes charge of placing lines in the...
A line team takes charge of placing lines in the covid...
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...
Compensation
Tips for negotiating compensation
HOSPITALIST PROGRAMS now gearing up to negotiate compensation with hospital executives are moving into uncharted territory. That's according to Matthew Dahnke, MD, chief inpatient...
Progress Notes
A behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine. This month's retrospective focuses on members of society who are in pandemic denial. Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, tackle a variety of stressors, successes and everyday occurrences seen on hospital...
Clinical
Personalized Care for Patients Suffering with Dysphagia
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THE PROCESS OF transitioning patients from the acute to post-acute care setting, whether it be back to their home, a skilled nursing facility,...
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Editor's Picks
Compensation & Career Guide
Patient encounters: daytime hospitalists vs. nocturnists
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...
Career
Medical education during covid years
LIKE JUST ABOUT EVERYONE in academic medicine, Elizabeth Schulwolf, MD, chief medical officer at Austin's Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas,...
Satisfaction/Burnout
Interventions to prevent clinician burnout
BURNOUT HAS dogged the medical profession for years, jeopardizing clinicians' personal and professional lives. But the hazards and stress they're living with now as...
Coding
Billing options for triage only?
WHILE IT SEEMS like covid has been the only topic of conversation for the past 18 months, hospitalists have been busy providing plenty of...
Career Center
Medical education during covid years
LIKE JUST ABOUT EVERYONE in academic medicine, Elizabeth Schulwolf, MD, chief medical officer at Austin's Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas,...