Search results for "Workload"
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
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue tackles gender equity and workload in academic medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/lfe.htm
15 Jun 2016
EHR access for inpatients shows promise in small trial
Giving inpatients access to their electronic health records (EHRs) during hospitalization appeared to improve empowerment and did not seem to affect clinician or nurse workload, according to a small new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/18/2.htm
18 Mar 2015
Duty hours and paper records
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/in-the-news.htm
15 Jun 2018
Flexible duty-hour policies associated with higher dissatisfaction among interns
Flexible policies that did not limit shift length or specify mandatory time off between shifts were not associated with any significant changes in the percentages of time that interns spent on direct patient care and education.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/28/1.htm
28 Mar 2018
Prepare for Parkinson's disease patients
Medication management and other strategies can improve a hospital stay.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/08/prepare-for-parkinsons-disease-patients.htm
15 Aug 2019
Coping with copy-paste
A hospitalist looks at how much of the typical electronic health record has been copied and pasted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/09/qa-copy-paste.htm
15 Sep 2017
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
An example case helps explain this clinical syndrome that mimics acute myocardial infarction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/expert-analysis-takotsubo-cardiomyopathy.htm
15 May 2020
The role of telehospitalists in COVID-19 response
Hospitalists caring remotely for New York patients explain their role.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/the-role-of-telehospitalists-in-covid-19-response.htm
15 May 2020
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