December 2019
COVER STORY: Good medicine: Addressing social determinants
FEATURE: Working up syncope
CODING: Billing team conferences? Not so fast
WHAT WORKS: Breaking the telemetry habit
COMMENTARY: You can’t always get what you want
PROGRESS NOTES: New Year’s Eve in the hospital
NEWS BRIEFS: Scary new stats on superbugs
November 2019
COVER STORY: Is the bull market for compensation over?
FEATURE: The art of apology: Physician disclosure done right
WHAT WORKS: Want faster consults? Start with your own service
COMMENTARY: Going vertical: documentation at the bedside
NEWS BRIEFS: Targeting community-acquired pneumonia
PRACTICE CLOSEUPS: A look at practices across the country that are hiring
FROM THE EDITOR: A blip? Or a trend?
October 2019
COVER STORY: What’s the best shift day for hospitalists?
FEATURE: Low-risk patients and stress testing, DVT prophylaxis
WHAT WORKS: Slashing delirium days in geriatric patients
BY THE NUMBERS: Screening for unhealthy alcohol use in the hospital
NEWS BRIEFS: Severe sepsis: blood cultures first, then give antibiotics
CAREER: A look at academic hospital medicine
CAREER: A look at hospitalist job satisfaction
September 2019
COVER STORY: Tackling opioid treatment in the hospital
Q&A: Cutting back on antibiotics for pneumonia
PROGRESS NOTES: The quest for immortality in the ICU
POLL: Hospitalists rank their top 10 challenges
NEWS BRIEFS: Are physicians suffering from burnout or depression?
SLIDE SHOW: What types of shifts do hospitalists work?
August 2019
COVER STORY: How hospitalists handle admission requests from the emergency department
FEATURE: Nocturnist nightmares: managing emergencies, agitated delirium and narcotic independence
Q&A: How to cut down on sleep interruptions
BY THE NUMBERS: Billing NP/PA services? Are shared visits always the right strategy?
WHAT WORKS: The upsides, downsides of using scribes
NEWS BRIEFS: Are you overtreating pneumonia?
CAREER: What do bonuses and incentives look like for hospitalists?
POLL: What are hospitalists’ roles beyond patient care?
LETTERS: More on joint rounds, CHF/AKI
July 2019
COVER STORY: Your patient is going to a SNF
WHAT WORKS: Faster communication, more timely care
COMMENTARY: How to screen for emotional intelligence
PROGRESS NOTES: The parade of disability
POLL: A look at NPs/PAs in hospital medicine
NEWS BRIEFS: The high cost of physician burnout
June 2019
COVER STORY: We’re (NOT) hiring
BY THE NUMBERS: Steer clear of copy and paste
WHAT WORKS: Making joint rounds work
COMMENTARY: Utilization matters
POLL: Discharge strategies
NEWS BRIEFS : Delirium and readmissions
LETTERS: More on procedure services
May 2019
COVER STORY: Building flexibility into the schedule
BY THE NUMBERS: Waxing nostalgic
WHAT WORKS: Patients leaving AMA: a new approach
PROFILE: Ailing career? A coach might help
PROGRESS NOTES: Nurses station food
NEWS BRIEFS: Do apology laws work?
April 2019
COVER STORY: Do your new hires need more help?
Q&A: Fluoroquinolone prescribing at discharge
BY THE NUMBERS: A look at teaching physician rules
WHAT WORKS: Hospitalists take back bedside procedures
PROFILE: Alyssa’s Law: one state down, 49 to go
ON THE WARDS: The part-timer’s life for me
POLL: Paid to sign on?
NEWS BRIEFS: CMS levies hospital-acquired infection penalties
LETTERS: More on heart failure patients at discharge
FROM THE EDITOR: Onboarding for the long term
March 2019
COVER STORY: Thinking about a move to leadership?
FEATURE: Social media: Should you stop lurking and log on?
ANALYSIS: Early discharges: They’re complicated
BY THE NUMBERS: Clearing up confusion
WHAT WORKS: A fun way to promote sepsis awareness
COMMENTARY: Improving med rec: Let’s start a discussion
PROGRESS NOTES: The hospital labyrinth
POLL: A look at hospitalist shift rates
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: A leader, or a follower? Both work
February 2019
COVER STORY: Are you keeping your nocturnists happy?
FEATURE: Tuning up your heart failure patients at discharge
ANALYSIS: Antipsychotics for delirium? Short answer is no
WHAT WORKS: Basal insulin: What happens when patients go NPO?
PROFILE: A doctor dance-off for a great cause
POLL: A look at hospitalist rounding
LETTERS: More on consultants, disaster planning
FROM THE EDITOR: When nocturnists ain’t happy …
January 2019
COVER STORY: Getting smart about your comp plan
FEATURE: The flu: It’s back!
BY THE NUMBERS: Decisions, decisions
WHAT WORKS: Surgical redesign delivers earlier discharges
FROM THE EDITOR: How flexible is your comp plan?