Search results for "Education"
Both healthy and tasty?
Nutrition experts weigh in on the latest trends in inpatient eating, from fast-food delivery to veganism.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/22/both-healthy-and-tasty.htm
22 Feb 2023
A bit of good news on drug costs
Recent Medicare changes may help more patients access guideline-directed heart failure therapies, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/15/a-bit-of-good-news-on-drug-costs.htm
15 Feb 2023
Fixing hip fracture outcomes
Orthos, geriatricians, and hospitalists at one hospital collaborated to apply age-friendly strategies in their hip fracture care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/fixing-hip-fracture-outcomes.htm
8 Feb 2023
Slashing superfluous labs
Experts offer their advice on getting over your love of daily labs to help patients and reduce costs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/01/free/slashing-superfluous-labs.htm
1 Feb 2023
Paying for hospital care at home
Traditional hospital-at-home models include costs for care, medications, and labs but do not cover the capital expenses that diagnosis-related group payments typically support.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/01/paying-for-hospital-care-at-home.htm
1 Feb 2023
Tough times for hospital finances
After a rough year, execs are looking for ways to get out of the red in 2023. They offered ideas on how hospitalists can help.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/25/free/tough-times-for-hospital-finances.htm
25 Jan 2023
New recommendations from think tank address moral stress among hospital clinicians
The Study to Examine Physicians' Pandemic Stress interviewed attendings and fellows who cared for COVID-19 patients in 23 hospitals in New York City and New Orleans and developed 12 recommendations to address their distress.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/25/new-recommendations-from-think-tank-address-moral-stress-among-hospital-clinicians.htm
25 Jan 2023
Physicians working fewer hours
Physicians, especially dads, are working less per week, while hours worked by advanced practice practitioners are rising steeply, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/18/physicians-working-fewer-hours.htm
18 Jan 2023
Restrictive postop opioid protocols associated with changes in opioid prescribing, chronic use
Opioids prescribed after surgery and rates of conversion to long-term therapy decreased after a protocol limiting postop opioid prescriptions to three days or fewer was implemented at a tertiary care cancer center.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/11/restrictive-postop-opioid-protocols-associated-with-changes-in-opioid-prescribing-chronic-use.htm
11 Jan 2023
Talking about trainee treatment
A system that allowed medical students and trainees to anonymously or confidentially report mistreatment or unprofessional behavior was revealing for one institution.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/04/free/talking-about-trainee-treatment.htm
4 Jan 2023