Search results for "Staffing"
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
Prep for periop
Pain, blood pressure, and transfusions are among the topics covered.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/conference.htm
15 Jan 2013
Palliative care for a pandemic
In a recent interview, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, described how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current crisis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/3.htm
8 Apr 2020
January 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/
Teaching to the (blood glucose) test
Diabetes self-management education is cost-efficient and effective but underused, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/09/conference.htm
15 Sep 2012
Getting patients on the move in the ICU
Two academic tertiary care medical centers begin mobilization early in mechanically ventilated ICU patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/success.htm
15 Apr 2011
A new home for hospitalists
Denver Health Medical Center helped reduce boarding of patients in the emergency department.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/11/success.htm
15 Nov 2012
October 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/
Intensive transition intervention failed to reduce readmissions of high-risk patients
Patients in the intervention group were assigned to a program that bridged inpatient, outpatient, and home settings, providing virtual and in-person access to a dedicated multidisciplinary team for 30 days after hospitalization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/22/1.htm
22 Aug 2018
Private equity takeovers linked with more in-hospital adverse events in Medicare patients
Rates of falls and central-line bloodstream infections increased in hospitals after they were acquired by private equity firms, despite these hospitals having a younger, higher-income patient cohort.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/private-equity-takeovers-linked-with-more-in-hospital-adverse-events-in-medicare-patients.htm
3 Jan 2024