How a medical journal is navigating the mask wars
THE MASK WARS continued to rage on in the pages of Annals of Internal Medicine this week, with the journal publishing a new editorial...
May/June 2023
WHAT LENGTH SHIFTS do hospitalists work on average? Data from the 2022 Today's Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey found that 12-hour shifts are still the norm for close to 60% of those responding. But there are differences based on...
SEVEN-ON/SEVEN-OFF scheduling has been a staple of hospital medicine for more than 20 years. While that scheduling model is still the most common, it's definitely more popular among certain types of hospitalists (think younger physicians). It is also more...
Patient Safety
Predicting in-hospital mortality
FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, Neetu Mahendraker, MD, lead academic hospitalist for the Indiana University Health System in Indianapolis, has worked to develop a...
Career
Insults and conspiracy theories: Bad behavior by hospital patients
AS EVIDENCE that violent incidents are ticking up in his hospital, hospitalist Bryan Harris, MD, chief medical officer of the St. Charles Redmond campus...
Infectious Disease
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Learning from Covid: How one health system reduced the use of daily tests for covid inpatients
June 4, 2023
Long covid has become "disability roulette"
The CDC reports that the number of covid...
Clinical
“Diagnostic stewardship” prevents unneeded antibiotic prescribing
"DIAGNOSTIC STEWARDSHIP" may be a term that many hospitalists aren't familiar with. But according to Valerie Vaughn, MD, MSc, director of hospital medicine research...
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News Briefs
Is hospital medicine a brain drain from primary care?
Is hospital medicine a brain drain from primary care?
IT MAY NOT BE breaking news, but the embrace of hospital medicine by young internists suggests...
Patient Flow
Do early discharges boost throughput?
IT'S BECOME THE GO-TO TACTIC in many hospitals to try to speed up throughput: having hospitalists prioritize early discharges to clear out beds. Morning...
Satisfaction/Burnout
Unmasking shame in medicine
EMILY SILVERMAN, MD, is having a moment, one that's been years in the making.
In 2016, she founded The Nocturnists to host clinicians telling live...
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...
