DECEMBER 2020
2020. Damn.
WELL, THE YEAR STARTED out normal enough, and the topics Today's Hospitalist covered at the beginning of the year presented the latest thinking on...
Should you steer clear of your own family?
WHILE YOU'RE TREATING coronavirus in the hospital, what's the right approach to safeguarding the health of your family? Three hospitalists talked to us about...
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
Staying safe: strategies for hospitalists to avoid coronavirus
WHEN THE COVID PANDEMIC was in its early stages in mid-March, the hospitalist group at Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo, Texas, talked about...
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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Editor's Picks
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...