Search results for "Your Practice"
The healing arts
Options can range from CD players in patient rooms to visits from certified art and music therapists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/02/arts.htm
15 Feb 2012
The capacity to determine capacity
One in four medical inpatients can't make a decision. And not just about whether to have the chocolate or vanilla pudding for dessert.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/decision.htm
15 Dec 2011
Hospitalists outside the hospital
Concerns about readmission rates and care transitions are leading some hospitalists to treat patients in the outpatient setting.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/discharge.htm
15 Dec 2011
The challenge of predicting readmissions
It would be convenient if, along with their white coats, hospitalists were issued crystal balls.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/qa.htm
15 Dec 2011
Clearing or clouding the mind?
Antipsychotics can resolve agitation in patients with delirium, but that may not provide much overall benefit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/delirium.htm
15 Nov 2011
Volunteering abroad adds meaning to medical practice
Today's physicians may spend more time at a computer than at the bedside, but not if they volunteer abroad.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/volunteers.htm
15 Nov 2011
Improving handoffs from the ED
Just because disagreement between hospitalists and emergency physicians is natural, it's not necessarily unavoidable.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/10/ED.htm
15 Oct 2011
Obesity complicates diagnosis
The rising prevalence of obesity has created health dangers for patients and new challenges in diagnostic testing for hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/10/obesity.htm
15 Oct 2011
Break the fracture cycle
Experts discuss how osteoporosis treatment rates can be raised from appalling to acceptable.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/09/osteo.htm
15 Sep 2011
Ensure comprehension to increase adherence
Roughly 80 million Americans navigate health care's complexities with limited health literacy skills.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/comprehension.htm
15 Aug 2011