Search results for "excuse"
Look over your hedges
Hedging, or using words in conversation that make meaning fuzzier, is unavoidable, but the resulting misunderstandings with patients and families can be reduced, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/23/look-over-your-hedges.htm
23 Aug 2023
Why and how to apologize
Saying you're sorry about a breakdown in care can help patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/why-and-how-to-apologize.htm
15 Oct 2020
Don't get psyched out!
An internist and psychiatrist offers tips on separating somatization from deception.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/dont-get-psyched-out.htm
15 May 2019
Readmission impossible
A dedicated team strives to keep a complex patient out of the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/free/newmans-notions-readmission-impossible.htm
15 Jun 2018
Debriefs help make sense of adverse events
Two teaching hospitals enabled clinicians and staff to discuss serious adverse clinical events soon after they happen.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/05/success-story-discussing-adverse-events.htm
15 May 2016
Optimizing heart failure medications at discharge
Guidelines, nonadherence, interactions, and transitions make for tricky balance.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/heart-failure-medications-discharge.htm
15 Feb 2016
Improve your CPOE to save time and patients
System settings should be customized to individual needs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/06/CPOE-improvements.htm
15 Jun 2015
Palliative med conference offers advice on hip fracture, treatment withdrawal, organ donation
News from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's annual assembly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/05/conference-palliative.htm
15 May 2015
In the News
New hospitals and patient satisfaction, NSAIDs and adverse events, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/05/in-the-news.htm
15 May 2015
New hospital with amenities didn't improve patient satisfaction scores
Renovating a hospital to have a more patient-centered design improved patient ratings of the building but didn't significantly affect other measures of satisfaction, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/02/11/1.htm
11 Feb 2015