Search results for "Hospital practice"
The different ways hospitals pay
Incentive compensation aims to improve quality and productivity.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/10/money.htm
15 Oct 2010
Improving handoffs from the ED
Just because disagreement between hospitalists and emergency physicians is natural, it's not necessarily unavoidable.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/10/ED.htm
15 Oct 2011
Medicare proposes changes to conditions of participation
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed major changes to existing regulations last week, with the release of two sets of proposed rules and one finalized rule that the agency predicts will save the health care system nearly $1.1 billion per year by removing unnecessary regulations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/10/26/1.htm
26 Oct 2011
The challenge of predicting readmissions
It would be convenient if, along with their white coats, hospitalists were issued crystal balls.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/qa.htm
15 Dec 2011
Gaming the hospital
Many of the game's challenges and jokes were drawn from experience in hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/physprofile.htm
15 Nov 2013
A new kind of leadership: The physician and administrator partnership
Hospitals risk dehumanization if major decisions are carried out by those whose focus is not on patient care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/05/student-hospitalist.htm
15 May 2014
Search out the surrogates
Alexia M. Torke, MD, discusses her study on sharing decision making with elderly inpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/07/decisionmaking.htm
15 Jul 2014
The chairman of the bored
An adventure in hospital committee participation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/newman.htm
15 Oct 2014
Rapid testing for infectious disease
A potential boon but no magic bullet.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/rapid-tests-ID.htm
15 Jan 2016
Spotting delirium
Quick screening tools may help hospitalists identify more patients at risk.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/03/delirium-screening.htm
15 Mar 2016