Search results for "Scheduling"
Risk of mortality may be increased when hip fracture repair wait time exceeds 24 hours
Targeting surgery within 24 hours would represent a significant change in practice because the majority of patients did not receive surgery within this timeframe, study authors noted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/12/06/2.htm
6 Dec 2017
Beating burnout
Speakers at Hospital Medicine 2018 offer their advice on preventing, recognizing, and recovering from burnout.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/beating-burnout.htm
15 Jun 2018
Baking hospitalist training into residency
Although half of large internal medicine residency programs offer hospitalist-focused rotations, there are no standards for their structure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/baking-hospitalist-training-into-residency.htm
15 Aug 2018
An equation for early postdischarge visits
Queuing theory helped one hospital fit heart failure patients into a clinic soon after discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/success-story-an-equation-for-early-postdischarge-visits.htm
15 Nov 2018
Transitional care program reduced admissions but not 90-day mortality rates
The postdischarge transition program included a multidisciplinary team that assessed patients' medical and psychosocial needs, addressed modifiable barriers, and linked patients to a new primary care source.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/06/05/3.htm
5 Jun 2019
Inpatient physician continuity associated with speedier discharge at one hospital
The daily discharge probability at a hospital in Canada increased from 15.3% to 20.9% when the consecutive number of days an average patient was treated by the same physician increased from one to seven.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/06/26/1.htm
26 Jun 2019
Scheduling assistance program for primary care appointments improved postdischarge follow-up
Attending and resident physicians entered a discharge appointment request with an outpatient physician for a specified time period, and staff at the scheduling assistance program called the practice to make the appointment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/25/4.htm
25 Sep 2019
Opioid initiation, continuity, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/11/in-the-news.htm
15 Nov 2019
ACP, other organizations issued guidance on when to ease social distancing and other COVID-19 restrictions
The College identified five necessary elements that must be in place to ease restrictions, groups issued a joint statement on resuming elective surgeries, and CMS released guidance on resuming essential care for patients without COVID-19 symptoms in regions with low and stable incidence of the virus.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/22/2.htm
22 Apr 2020
Therapeutic hypothermia, HAI network, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/recent-research.htm
15 May 2020