Search results for "Health care costs"
In the News
Central line infection rates, organizational characteristics of hospitalist groups, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/itn.htm
15 Jul 2011
Physicians identify many of their own admissions as preventable
Differences in risk assessment and training between ED and medicine were reported to be factors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/qa-physicians-identify-many-of-their-own-admissions-as-preventable.htm
15 Jul 2018
Internists release policy paper on medical liability crisis
ACP released a policy paper on the medical liability crisis, which continues to have a profound effect on the medical system. “Medical Liability Reform—Innovative Solutions for a New Health Care System” provides an update of the medical liability landscape as well as state-based activity on medical liability reform and summarizes traditional and newer reform proposals and their ability to affect system efficiency and encourage patient safety.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/04/16/7.htm
16 Apr 2014
Teaching to the (blood glucose) test
Diabetes self-management education is cost-efficient and effective but underused, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/09/conference.htm
15 Sep 2012
When algorithms are biased
A care management algorithm underestimated the needs of black patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/qa-when-algorithms-are-biased.htm
15 Feb 2020
Physicians view other parties as responsible for reducing costs of health care, survey finds
Physicians believe other parties, including trial lawyers, health insurance companies, and hospitals and health systems, bear greater responsibility than they do for reducing health care costs, according to a recent survey.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/31/1.htm
31 Jul 2013
OPAT has similar safety, lower costs versus inpatient antibiotic therapy
Patients receiving outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) after hospitalization for bacterial infection had 90-day adverse event rates of 35.6% compared to 39.0% in those who stayed in the hospital for parenteral antimicrobial therapy, a retrospective Canadian study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/27/opat-has-similar-safety-lower-costs-versus-inpatient-antibiotic-therapy.htm
27 Apr 2022
Recent Research
C. diff risk, discharge bundles, transfusion strategies, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/05/recent-research.htm
15 May 2015
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Oral low-dose steroids for COPD exacerbations, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/jw.htm
15 Jan 2011
Nurse-led mobile EKG monitoring in the hospital appears cost-effective after initial stroke
An Australian study found that mobile EKG monitoring was associated with marginally higher costs and more quality-adjusted life-years over a 20-year time horizon than 24-hour Holter monitoring during an index hospitalization for stroke.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/20/nurse-led-mobile-ekg-monitoring-in-the-hospital-appears-cost-effective-after-initial-stroke.htm
20 Apr 2022