Search results for "High-value care"
List offers opportunities to improve value in hospital medicine
Recommendations from the Right Care Alliance Hospital Medicine Council include checking orthostatic vital signs in patients with syncope before considering testing beyond an electrocardiogram.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/14/4.htm
14 Mar 2018
Monkey medicine
You may feel like you've entered a zoo and your ward has become the primate house, so here are the terms you will need to be a successful hominid hospitalist.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/newmans-notions-monkey-medicine.htm
15 Jan 2018
Machine learning in the hospital
This issue also features coverage of aid-in-dying laws and Mayo Clinic's fall 2017 hospital medicine conference in Tucson, Ariz.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jan 2018
Frail elderly account for majority of potentially preventable Medicare spending
Spending was compared among six groups of Medicare beneficiaries: nonelderly disabled, frail elderly, major complex chronic, minor complex chronic, simple chronic, and relatively healthy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/18/4.htm
18 Oct 2017
July ACP Hospitalist now available, with a web exclusive
Our July issue includes a cover story looking at new drugs and data on Clostridium difficile and extensive conference coverage of Hospital Medicine 2017.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/07/19/5.htm
19 Jul 2017
The high-value care conversation
With a few tips and tricks, hospitalists can successfully talk to inpatients about high-value care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/high-value-care-conversation.htm
15 Jul 2017
C. diff and Hospital Medicine 2017
Conference coverage of cirrhosis, geriatrics, high-value care, diagnostic error, and radiology.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jul 2017
Bathtubs, sacred cows, and high-value care in the hospital
Moving patients efficiently through the hospital, or ideally keeping them out entirely, should be a major focus for internists and hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/05/2.htm
5 Apr 2017
Teaching high-value care
An assistant dean for health care value discusses a new track in care transformation for residents.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/q-and-a-teaching-high-value-care.htm
15 Mar 2017
In the March issue
This month's issue includes articles on improving time to PCI, managing an emerging resistant infection, and dealing with drug interactions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/lfe.htm
15 Mar 2017