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Hospitalists already have skills that will help them flourish amid change, experts said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/08/changingtimes.htm
15 Aug 2014
Crucial coding rules for clinicians
Principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, principal procedure, and present on admission are covered.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/coding-rules.htm
15 Sep 2016
Predicting the future at Hospital Medicine 2007
Robert M. Wachter, FACP, describes hospital medicine in 2017.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/hosp-med.htm
15 Jul 2007
ACC and AHA update performance measures for STEMI and NSTEMI
The update has 17 performance measures, including four new ones, and seven quality measures, all of them new.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/09/27/2.htm
27 Sep 2017
It takes a community
The Camden Coalition in New Jersey and other health care systems are addressing the problem of hospital readmissions by bringing people together at the local level.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/05/readmissions.htm
15 May 2010
Asymptomatic bacteriuria treatment averted due to fewer urine cultures, study finds
Michigan hospitals successfully reduced their use of antibiotics in asymptomatic patients with positive urine cultures, and the difference could be tied to less culturing, since use of antibiotics among asymptomatic patients who got cultures didn't change significantly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/12/asymptomatic-bacteriuria-treatment-averted-due-to-fewer-urine-cultures-study-finds.htm
12 Jul 2023
A patient-centered home on the range
A three-year patient-centered medical home pilot reduced ED visits and hospital admissions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/12/qa2.htm
15 Dec 2012
Rating the rankings: How ‘top hospital’ lists define quality
It's the mid-1980s. You're an accountant, not a doctor, and you've just been told that your mother has a rare type of cancer. You respect and trust her physician-but this is your mother, and she needs serious medicine. How do you find the very best possible treatment?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/top-hosp.htm
15 Apr 2007
Placing priority on pressure ulcers
Current emphasis on public reporting of quality scores has helped make accurate documentation and effective management of pressure ulcers crucial health care considerations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/coding.htm
15 Aug 2011
Nurses turn evidence into action
A care management department at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, helps incorporate new evidence and guidelines into daily practice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/10/success.htm
15 Oct 2011