December 2016
COVER STORY: The clock is ticking
ANALYSIS: What’s bringing down your group morale?
Q& A: Breaking the “culture if spikes” habit
NEWS: “What’s your plan to evacuate?
ON THE WARDS: Feeling dumped on?
WHAT WORKS: Finally, some evidence to back surgical comanagement
BY THE NUMBERS: How’s your operational efficiency?
POLL: A look at hospitalist pay trends
PROGRESS NOTES: The holiday spiral
FROM THE EDITOR: Battling sepsis: the need for speed
November 2016
Cover Story: Ka-ching! A look at hospital medicine’s high earners
Feature: What’s it take for doctors to find work-life balance?
Analysis: Hospitalists weigh in on opioid prescribing
Q&A: Want to prevent readmissions? Speed up discharge summaries
What works: Detecting sepsis in real time
Coding: How hospitalists should handle clinical information pending at discharge
Poll: A look at pay, shifts and more for pediatric hospitalists
In the News: CMS releases final MACRA rule
Career: Practice Closeups-Career Guide
From the Editor: Our [ compensation and career ] survey says…
October 2016
COVER STORY: Who makes group decisions?
FEATURE: Toward a better night’s sleep
FEATURE: Unconscious bias in patient care
ANALYSIS: “So, what brought you back to the hospital?”
Q&A: Interhospital transfers pose plenty of problems
BY THE NUMBERS: Is your documentation as accurate as possible?
WHAT WORKS: Convincing doctors to order fewer C. diff tests
COMMENTARY: Beating burnout
POLL: Hospitalists weigh in on recertification
FROM THE EDITOR: Who calls the shots in your group?
September 2016
COVER STORY: Readmissions: How can you keep patients from bouncing back?
FEATURE: How to manage difficult patients and their expectations
FEATURE: Getting intubations right the first time
ANALYSIS: Sexual harassment and gender bias in academic medicine
Q&A: Are resident handoffs especially risky?
WHAT WORKS: Bringing exercise programs to patients
MARKETPLACE: Scheduling software with a proven track record
POLL: Respect and burnout in the hospital
NEWS BRIEFS: Get ready for higher readmission penalties
FROM THE EDITOR: Tackling readmissions
August 2016
COVER STORY: Building camaraderie: how social connectedness in hospitalist groups pays off
FEATURE: Health IT controversies
Q&A: UTIs and antibiotics in the hospital: Where’s the re-evaluation?
HOSPITAL MEDICINE: Hospital medicine turns 20
NEWS: Subspecialty status for pediatric hospital medicine?
BY THE NUMBERS: The staggering costs of physician turnover
WHAT WORKS: Overuse: another type of medical error
POLL: Hospitalist groups: Who’s working nights?
FROM THE EDITOR: Play together to stay together
July 2016
COVER STORY: Chasing after five stars? Hospitalists boosting patient satisfaction
FEATURE: A pragmatic approach to treating opioid use disorders in the hospital
FEATURE: Tell-tale signs of weak leadership
ANALYSIS: Think local to improve antibiotic use
Q&A: Scrapping unnecessary labs in the hospital
CODING: Decision-making: fitting all the pieces together
WHAT WORKS: Coaching for early-career hospitalists
COMMENTARY: Fragmented care: Are hospitalists part of the problem?
NEW DOCTORS: Need better team skills? Try training together
POLL: Hospitalist groups: Who’s coming and who’s going?
FROM THE EDITOR: A little help from your friends
June 2016
COVER STORY: Need to speed up observation care?
FEATURE: How to succeed with bundled payments
FEATURE: How do you treat spice, bath salts or 2C?
ANALYSIS: Does your contract compromise patient safety?
Q&A: Big flaws found in SAB management
CODING TIPS: ICD-10 surprises along the way
WHAT WORKS: Bringing more palliative care to the ICU
BACK TALK: More on “Sprinting past the ED:
When are direct admissions a good idea?”
COMMENTARY: The CDC’s new 12-step program for opioids
MARKETPLACE: An antidote to burnout
POLL: A look at hospitalist career satisfaction
FROM THE EDITOR: Observation care: your new service line?
May 2016
COVER STORY: The doctor is (plugged) in
FEATURE: A new set of acronyms
ANALYSIS: Overprescribing
IV antihypertensives?
Q&A: Evidence goes AWOL
CODING TIPS: Critical info on billing critical care
WHAT WORKS: Moving psych patients through the ED
POLL: How comfortable are you with specialty admissions?
NEWS BRIEFS: How many patients are eligible for thrombectomy?
FROM THE EDITOR: Big changes
April 2016
COVER STORY: Sprinting past the ED
ON THE WARDS: How hospitalists can get along better with the ED
ANALYSIS: The azithromycin-QT interval connection
Q&A: Depression in residents: What are we missing?
NEWS: Hospital medicine gains its own specialty code
CODING TIPS: Provider burnout: How’s your relationship with work?
WHAT WORKS: Overhauling the ICU-wards transition
PROFILE: Physician entrepreneur: Helping women grow a business
MARKETPLACE: “Digital empathy” and fewer readmissions
NEWS BRIEFS: New CDC guidelines
target opioid prescribing
POLL: What hospital duties do you perform?
FROM THE EDITOR: Taking the frustration out of direct admissions
March 2015
COVER STORY: Gender gap in hospital medicine: Do women have the same opportunities?
FEATURE: ID consults: formal or curbside?
ANALYSIS: Do discharge-before-noon initiatives work?
Q&A: Choosing Wisely in the real world
ON THE WARDS: L, G, B or T:
What’s important for a hospitalist?
CODING TIPS: Time is on your side
WHAT WORKS: Trauma service: a new comanagement line
BACK TALK: Do female hospitalists face discrimination?
MARKETPLACE: An early warning system
POLL: A look at hospitalists and post-acute care
NEWS BRIEFS: Only 1% of docs rack up 32% of paid claims
FROM THE EDITOR: Gender: a level field, or not so much?
February 2016
COVER STORY: Under the weather? Planning on working anyway?
FEATURE: Success with NPs/PAs
ANALYSIS: An order set tries to keep up with the evidence
Q&A: Translating evidence into local practice
CODING TIPS: Interpret this! Numbers involving physicians
WHAT WORKS: Detecting sepsis without alert fatigue
BACK TALK: I knew I was a hospitalist when …
COMICS: The hobgoblin of the hospitalist: Interruptions!
NEWS BRIEFS: Physician burnout:
It’s getting worse
POLL: Bonuses and incentives
LETTERS: More on bridging anticoagulation
FROM THE EDITOR: First, do no harm
January 2016
COVER STORY: Getting beyond restraints: How to improve psych care in hospital
FEATURE: Palliative care: Five things you may be doing wrong
ANALYSIS: What can go wrong with comanagement
Q&A: Does defensive medicine work after all?
CODING TIPS: The debut of advance care planning codes
WHAT WORKS: “Before you go, why are you leaving?
MARKETPLACE: In good company
NEWS BRIEFS: Volume counts in stroke care
BACK TALK: Do IMG hospitalists face discrimination?
POLL: A look at patient encounters
FROM THE EDITOR: The more things change, the more they stay the same