Search results for "Workload"
Retain physicians with these 10 tools
A program leader offered strategies and processes to keep hospitalists on board and moving up.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/12/retain-physicians-with-these-10-tools.htm
12 Apr 2023
Putting discharge first
Asking hospitalists to prioritize discharging patients first didn't speed throughput and caused other issues, a study found. The authors discussed what their findings mean for clinicians, administrators, and researchers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/29/free/putting-discharge-first.htm
29 Mar 2023
Frailty screening intervention linked to reduced mortality in year after elective surgery
A best practice alert identified patients with frailty and prompted surgeons to document a frailty-informed shared decision-making process and/or refer for additional evaluation by a multidisciplinary presurgery clinic or a primary care physician.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/01/frailty-screening-intervention-linked-to-reduced-mortality-in-year-after-elective-surgery.htm
1 Mar 2023
The year's top headlines
We collected the top five most read ACP Hospitalist articles of 2022 and identified some themes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/28/the-years-top-headlines.htm
28 Dec 2022
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
Parsing promotions for academic hospitalists
The scarcity of full professors in hospital medicine relates to the challenges of publishing while working as a hospitalist, a researcher explains.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/14/free/parsing-promotions-for-academic-hospitalists.htm
14 Sep 2022
How much work is too much?
Researchers are working to identify the effects of heavy workload on hospitalists and their care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/10/free/how-much-work-is-too-much.htm
10 Aug 2022
Pharmacist workload linked to worse outcomes in ICU patients with complex med regimens
Patients with complex medication regimens had increases in mortality risk and ICU length of stay in a retrospective study. They also received more interventions from pharmacists, but a higher patient-to-pharmacist ratio was associated with fewer of these interventions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/22/pharmacist-workload-linked-to-worse-outcomes-in-icu-patients-with-complex-med-regimens.htm
22 Jun 2022
Higher hospitalist workload associated with slightly longer length of stay
A patient load of 16 patients, compared to 13, was associated with a small, but statistically significant, increase in length of stay. However, there was no association between workload and ED visits or readmissions in the single-center observational study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/higher-hospitalist-workload-associated-with-slightly-longer-length-of-stay.htm
15 Jun 2022
Registered nurse staffing associated with sepsis mortality risk
Each additional registered nurse hour per patient day was associated with a 3% decrease in the odds of 60-day mortality in a cross-sectional study of about 700,000 Medicare beneficiaries admitted with a primary diagnosis of sepsis in 2018.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/01/registered-nurse-staffing-associated-with-sepsis-mortality-risk.htm
1 Jun 2022