Search results for "electronic medical record"
Put a number on it: Rating patient acuity
The University of Chicago Medical Center found a reliable way to transmit vital information about patient status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/success.htm
15 Dec 2011
Strategies for succeeding as an inpatient physician
Attendings should advocate that their time be protected to ensure that they can fulfill their primary responsibilities during the rotation: patient care and education.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/medical.htm
15 May 2011
Why general medicine ward teams should round in the ICU
Rounding on established patients undergirds the fundamental bases of professionalism.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/01/perspectives.htm
15 Jan 2012
Dialogue: Communication at discharge
Lee W. Roof, ACP Member, a primary care internist, and Dawn Brezina, ACP Member, a hospitalist, offer their perspectives on how hospitalists and PCPs can improve communication during handoffs at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/improve-comm.htm
15 Oct 2007
Stewardship program improved perioperative opioid prescribing
A project in a safety-net health system reduced use of hydrocodone-acetaminophen for surgical patients and increased prescribing of acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and oxycodone to them without increasing overall opioid use or returns to the ED.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/21/stewardship-program-improved-perioperative-opioid-prescribing.htm
21 Dec 2022
A new kind of stewardship
Patients taking antiretroviral therapy are at risk for medication errors during hospitalization and care transitions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/qa-a-new-kind-of-stewardship.htm
15 Jan 2020
Recent Research
Organ failure in the ICU, non-cardiac surgery after stents and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/rr.htm
15 Jan 2013
Time to teach
Everybody believes somebody should do it, but nobody has the time to figure out whose job it is. Such is the problematic status of patient discharge education.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/04/qa.htm
15 Apr 2013
Getting with the C. difficile guidelines
Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Ohio improved C. diff treatment by instituting a formal stewardship initiative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/04/success.htm
15 Apr 2014
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A resident discovers a very special hospital computer.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/free/newmans-notions-deleted.htm
15 Feb 2019