Search results for "Workload"
Hospital medicine programs strategize responses to growth in clinical workload
Interviews with hospital medicine leaders from academic medical centers that experienced clinical growth in the past five years found that they are dealing with mismatches in supply and demand for teaching and clinical care roles.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/15/hospital-medicine-programs-strategize-responses-to-growth-in-clinical-workload.htm
15 Nov 2023
Attending physician workload may affect teaching effectiveness, patient safety
Academic rank and time spent with learners were positively associated with teaching evaluations, and higher midnight census and daily discharges were negatively associated, a single-center study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/01/13/3.htm
13 Jan 2016
June 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/
June 15, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/
Errors less likely among ICU residents working longer rather than shorter shifts
Residents made more serious errors while working a schedule that eliminated extended shifts, although the results varied by study site and may have been affected by higher workloads on the shorter shifts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/01/3.htm
1 Jul 2020
November 15, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/15/
An academic time crunch
Academic hospitalists discuss how to find time for education and research as the clinical workload keeps growing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/10/free/an-academic-time-crunch.htm
10 Jan 2024
Mandates on minimum nurse-to-patient ratios linked to better outcomes
Hospitals that implemented mandates on nurse-to-patient ratios lowered their patient mortality, and higher staffing was associated with lower readmission rates and shorter length of stay, an Australian study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/19/3.htm
19 May 2021
June 22, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/22/
Geographic cohorting may increase patient interactions, but with potential risks
An observational study used geotracking to determine the time that 17 hospitalists spent in direct patient care (defined as time in patient rooms) and indirect care (defined as other locations).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/27/2.htm
27 Nov 2019