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Letter from the Editor
This month's issue includes articles on optimizing length of stay, streamlining patient transfers, using new antibiotics for skin infections, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/lfe.htm
15 Oct 2014
Applications now being accepted for bundled payment initiative
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is currently soliciting applications for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/31/6.htm
31 Aug 2011
Readmissions frequent, one-quarter related to new problem
Rates and causes of hospital readmissions, and the infrequency of follow-up care, were quantified in a new research brief from the National Institute for Health Care Reform.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/12/14/1.htm
14 Dec 2011
Hopes and fears abound at National Bundled Payment Summit
Speakers were optimistic about the potential to reduce health care costs without decreasing profits.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/01/summit.htm
15 Jan 2012
Seeing readmissions from the patient's point of view
Researchers begin to investigate patient-reported outcomes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/patient-readmissions.htm
15 Sep 2015
Make quality metrics work for you
Stand out by providing high-value care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/06/quality-metrics.htm
15 Jun 2014
Bedside sitters, pneumothorax, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/07/in-the-news.htm
15 Jul 2020
Hospital medicine matures
Post-acute care is emerging as a dedicated field of practice on a path similar to hospital medicine's a decade or so ago.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/coverstory.htm
15 Oct 2012
An equation for early postdischarge visits
Queuing theory helped one hospital fit heart failure patients into a clinic soon after discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/success-story-an-equation-for-early-postdischarge-visits.htm
15 Nov 2018
Affordable Care Act pressures intensivists
The act's emphasis on cost containment and care efficiency will be felt most acutely in the ICU, speaker predicts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/critcare1.htm
15 Mar 2014