Search results for "Medical errors"
Hospital medicine in South America
A hospitalist-in-training reports from PASHA, the first congress of the Pan-American Society of Hospitalists, held in November in Brazil.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/student.htm
15 Feb 2011
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue includes a cover story on perioperative medication management, extensive coverage from Internal Medicine 2014, and an expert analysis of chemotherapy-induced hypersensitivity reactions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/06/lfe.htm
15 Jun 2014
CMS quality demo pays dividends for hospitals, but not always financially
Results from the first three years of the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) suggest that while bonuses were something to shoot for, they weren't the primary motivators for most participants. Instead, some hospitals viewed their participation as an opportunity to implement a tracking system, identify areas for improvement and see how they stacked up against other hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/cover-story.htm
15 Sep 2007
Medicare takes aim at hospital-acquired conditions
Medicare's recent announcement that it will stop paying for some hospital-acquired conditions has hospitals ramping up their quality improvement efforts, and some experts predict that hospitalists are likely to find themselves center stage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/cover-story.htm
15 Nov 2007
Pending lab tests rarely in discharge summaries to sub-acute care
Only 11% of sub-acute care patients with pending lab tests at discharge had these tests documented in their discharge summaries, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/12/15/1.htm
15 Dec 2010
Inpatient medication: Too much information, or not enough?
A recent study showed that many inpatients don't know what medications they're given in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/inpatient.htm
15 Mar 2010
July change in physician trainees increases mortality, lowers efficiency
Year-end changeovers of physician trainees at teaching hospitals are associated with increased mortality and lower efficiency of care during July, a new review of studies found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/07/13/1.htm
13 Jul 2011
U.S. and U.K. doctors differ on reporting conflicts, errors, impaired colleagues
Physicians in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom report differences between their professional values and their actual behavior, according to new survey results.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/03/16/1.htm
16 Mar 2011
Complications of care
ICD-10 requires that a complication code be assigned every time certain conditions or diagnoses are coded.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/coding-corner-complications-of-care.htm
15 Jul 2021
Facing change together
A hospitalist calls for collaboration during the pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/07/perspectives-facing-change-together.htm
15 Jul 2020