Search results for "Staffing"
Eliminating disparities in stroke outcomes
Recent studies have found that stroke patients admitted to the hospital at night and on the weekends are more likely to die than those admitted on weekdays. Why does mortality vary at different times of the day and week, and how can hospitals change their procedures to help minimize this difference?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/cover.htm
15 Jun 2008
Letter from the Editor
With stroke, there’s a common saying that time lost is brain lost.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/06/editor.htm
15 Jun 2008
In the News
Quality of health care affected by race and geography.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/08/itn.htm
15 Aug 2008
Do you really want to be your own boss?
Hospitalists face issues as they decide whether to start up or join a local hospitalist group, become part of a large group or management company, or be a hospital employee.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/independence.htm
15 Oct 2008
Calling for backup before it's needed
Failure to rescue, the failure to identify patients with critical abnormalities and provide the resources necessary to prevent harm, was one of the top three preventable errors found in hospitals in 2004-2006, accounting for 17% of total errors. Experts offer their solutions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/rescue.htm
15 Nov 2008
Physicians of the night
Disparities between day and night care, as well as new guidelines and public pressure, are pushing hospital administrators and hospitalist practices to offer 24/7 care. Quite a few hospitalists are willing to work at night under the right circumstances.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/cover.htm
15 Dec 2008
Giving hospitalists their space
Cleveland Clinic’s division of general internal medicine decided to try “geographic roundingâ€ï¿½ after a patient satisfaction survey revealed that many patients were unhappy that “my doctor is never around.â€ï¿½ That sentiment is starting to change now that hospitalists spend more time actually talking with patients and less time getting to them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/geographic.htm
15 Feb 2009
Do you know this surgeon?
With general surgeons in increasingly short supply, more hospitals will have to bring in temporary surgeons to help fill the demand for emergency and routine surgical services.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/surgeon.htm
15 Aug 2009
Letter from the Editor
Once you've recruited a few great hospitalists to your program, you might be tempted to think you've solved your staffing woes. But recruitment is only half the battle. You also need to worry about that other “R” word: retention.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/lfe.htm
15 Oct 2009
Not a time for modesty
With the economy shaky and hospital budgets tight, hospitalists are being asked more and more to prove their worth. Value may be the word that hospital administrators and consultants use to describe what hospitalists are being expected to demonstrate, but what it boils down to is this: Are hospitalists earning their keep?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/value.htm
15 Oct 2009