Search results for "Business of medicine"
Private equity and hospitals
Experts and research look at effects of health care investing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/private-equity-and-hospitals.htm
15 Dec 2020
The meaning of mergers
Industry leaders make their predictions about the future of hospitalist jobs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/the-meaning-of-mergers.htm
15 May 2019
Why are physicians unionizing?
Residents recently voted to newly unionize at Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Vermont, among other programs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/21/free/why-are-physicians-unionizing.htm
21 Sep 2022
Teams to improve hip fracture, heart failure
This issue looks at comanagement of hip fractures, prescribing for heart failure, antibiotic use in COVID-19, and private equity ownership of hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Dec 2020
Hospitalist turnover costs less than previously estimated based on other specialties
While it may be easier to transition between jobs in hospital medicine, the lack of frictional costs could also allow exploitative departments to cycle through physicians, said the authors of a new simulation study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/31/hospitalist-turnover-costs-less-than-previously-estimated-based-on-other-specialties.htm
31 Aug 2022
Rural hospital closures shift care to other hospitals in region
In two years after a rural hospital closed, ED visits at hospitals within a 30-mile radius increased by 10.22% on average while inpatient admissions increased by 1.17%, according to an analysis of hospital closures in 2005 to 2016.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/28/rural-hospital-closures-shift-care-to-other-hospitals-in-region.htm
28 Sep 2022
Hospital market competition not associated with outcomes of high-risk surgeries
A study compared mortality and readmissions by hospital among Medicare beneficiaries undergoing carotid endarterectomy, mitral valve or open aortic aneurysm repair, lung resection, esophagectomy, pancreatectomy, rectal resection, hip or knee replacement, or bariatric surgery.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/09/hospital-market-competition-not-associated-with-outcomes-of-high-risk-surgeries.htm
9 Aug 2023
Top 10 afib pearls
From prevalence and risk factors to treatment options.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/06/afib-pearls.htm
15 Jun 2015
For hospitalists, hard work doesn't mean higher pay
Pay per relative value unit differs by geography.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/salary.htm
15 Jul 2011
Award-winning physician was meant for hospital medicine
Peter Nock, ACP Member, explains why hospital medicine is the perfect fit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/profile.htm
15 Mar 2010