Search results for "Care Transitions"
December 13, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/13/
ED physicians and hospitalists differ on potential preventability of admissions
Physicians interviewed for the study attributed the difference between the specialties' evaluations on which admissions were potentially preventable to differences in clinician training, risk assessment, and clinician understanding of outpatient access.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/24/4.htm
24 Jan 2018
October 11, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/11/
Virtual rounds after transfers to SNF identified errors in discharge summaries
Hospitalists at two academic hospitals met weekly with clinicians from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to discuss patients who had recently been handed off, and they found errors in nearly a quarter of discharge summaries.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/11/virtual-rounds-after-transfers-to-snf-identified-errors-in-discharge-summaries.htm
11 Oct 2023
Top Docs
Our fourth annual Top Hospitalists issue recognizes leaders and teachers, innovators and mentors, researchers and pioneers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/topdocs.htm
15 Nov 2011
Primary care, discharging, and admitting physicians disagree about readmission causes
The physicians most commonly cited factors related to patient understanding and ability to self-manage as contributing causes to readmission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/22/1.htm
22 Jun 2016
Residents report that ‘warm handoffs' enhance patient safety
One residency program implemented a protocol in which the incoming and outgoing residents met at the end of a ward rotation to sign out and jointly round on sicker patients using a bedside-rounding checklist.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/23/2.htm
23 Aug 2017
What do PCPs wish hospitalists would do?
A survey looks at what PCPs want from their professional relationships with hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/09/PCPs-hospitalists-communication.htm
15 Sep 2015
Post-hospital syndrome
With no definitive method in place to keep patients from returning to the hospital, perhaps it's time to look at the problem in a new way.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/coverstory.htm
15 Mar 2013
FACP named 2012 MacArthur Fellow
Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH, FACP, has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2012.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/10/17/7.htm
17 Oct 2012