Search results for "Value of care"
December 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/12/
Turning talk about value into action
One hospital targets unnecessary treatment and tests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/10/success.htm
15 Oct 2014
Improving teamwork through the selection of medical trainees
Admissions requirements and interviews could be modified to emphasize teamwork, among other strategies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/01/residents.htm
15 Jan 2015
Teach trainees more thought, less waste
Hospitalist role models can help residents embrace high-value care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/03/high-value.htm
15 Mar 2015
Quality over cost: New book focuses on physicians' role in improving value
The book's authors discuss the importance of high-value health care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/08/book-high-value-care.htm
15 Aug 2015
Giving physicians outcome data reduced costs, improved quality at 1 hospital
Pilot improvement projects targeted cost and quality for hip and knee replacement, hospitalist lab utilization, and sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/09/21/2.htm
21 Sep 2016
Recent Research
Acupuncture versus morphine for acute pain relief, outcomes data for physicians, beta-blockers at discharge after elective PCI, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/recent-research.htm
15 Dec 2016
In the March issue
This month's issue includes articles on improving time to PCI, managing an emerging resistant infection, and dealing with drug interactions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/lfe.htm
15 Mar 2017
When readmissions went down, return visits to ED and observation went up
Researchers compared more than 200,000 hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia in 2009 and 2010 to matched hospitalizations in 2013 and 2014.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/12/06/3.htm
6 Dec 2017
Fewer than 1 in 4 hospitals have both low-mortality and low-cost care for AMI, HF, and pneumonia
There were statistically significant but weak inverse correlations between hospitals' 30-day mortality rates and payments for the conditions, suggesting substantial opportunities to improve the efficiency and value of care, according to the study authors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/24/1.htm
24 Oct 2018