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Innovators are taking steps to help banish care discontinuity once and for all, with some especially focusing on the role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/pcps-in-the-hospital.htm
15 Mar 2018
Wanted: Small-town hospitalists
Hospitalists can bring some relief to short-staffed rural areas by taking over inpatient care. But as more rural communities consider implementing hospitalist programs, they find themselves faced with the same recruitment challenge that helped create the problem: a rural venue.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/cover-story.htm
15 Dec 2007
Lab oversight important even for waived testing
Physicians should take steps to improve the testing done in their hospitals and offices.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/01/qa.htm
15 Jan 2014
Physicians view other parties as responsible for reducing costs of health care, survey finds
Physicians believe other parties, including trial lawyers, health insurance companies, and hospitals and health systems, bear greater responsibility than they do for reducing health care costs, according to a recent survey.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/31/1.htm
31 Jul 2013
In the News
Aspirin after pancreas surgery, appropriate use criteria for noninvasive vascular tests, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/itn.htm
15 Nov 2013
Acute decompensated heart failure
Morning Report, a new feature, discusses the clinical and administrative aspects of a fictional but realistic hospital case from admission to discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/10/morning-report-heart-failure.htm
15 Oct 2015
Truly be the “PCP in the hospital”
When patients are most in need of a familiar face, they often must trust the stranger who was assigned to walk in their door. But it doesn't have to be that way.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/perspectives-PCP.htm
15 Apr 2016
Open records come to the wards
Hospitals and physicians are adjusting to the new federal requirement to provide patients full access to their entire medical record, including notes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/open-records-come-to-the-wards.htm
15 Jul 2021
EVALI, rapid response, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/in-the-news.htm
15 Sep 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