Search results for "Physician workload"
March 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/03/
Top Docs
Our call for nominations last spring yielded an impressive number of nominees, from which our editorial board selected the ten featured here. These physicians have done admirable work in patient rounding, resident education, technology, workload balance, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/coverstory.htm
15 Nov 2013
When the census soars
Creative scheduling and on-call systems prevent surges from spiraling out of control.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/02/hospital-census.htm
15 Feb 2015
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
In the News
Attending physician workload, prescription opioids after overdose.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/03/in-the-news.htm
15 Mar 2016
How academic hospitalists can manage workload
Academic hospitalists must balance what has been called the 3 shields: practice, teaching, and research.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/workload-academic-medicine.htm
15 Jun 2016
Getting the most from advanced practice providers
Hospitalists team up with nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/advanced-practice-providers.htm
15 Dec 2016
Higher electronic order volume may be associated with increased patient complexity
The analysis also found that 91.2% of patients had a discharge summary completed within 24 hours, but that patients were less likely to receive a timely summary if the treating team had a higher volume of orders the day before discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/12/4.htm
12 Sep 2018
Stroke transfers, order volume
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/in-the-news.htm
15 Jan 2019
Higher hospitalist workload associated with slightly longer length of stay
A patient load of 16 patients, compared to 13, was associated with a small, but statistically significant, increase in length of stay. However, there was no association between workload and ED visits or readmissions in the single-center observational study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/higher-hospitalist-workload-associated-with-slightly-longer-length-of-stay.htm
15 Jun 2022