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Your next hire could be right down the hall
Physicians who move from the community to the hospital mid-career present a potential solution to the hospitalist field's perennial workforce shortage. They also offer some benefits and challenges that differ from those of their hospitalist-track peers. Hospitalist leaders who note those differences and find the means to take advantage of them, are on track to building well-balanced, high-functioning hospitalist teams.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/cover.htm
15 Oct 2008
Coding corner
Coding corner: ICD-9 changes take effect.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/coding.htm
15 Oct 2008
The House of God revisited
Jamie S. Newman, FACP, offers a hospitalist's perspective on a classic book.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/10/free/book.htm
15 Oct 2008
Top Docs
The doctors recognized in ACP Hospitalist’s first annual Top Hospitalists issue include teachers, quality improvement gurus, researchers and bloggers. They’ve focused on improving geriatric care, growing hospital admissions, facilitating transitions of care and raising staff satisfaction. ACP Hospitalist’s editorial board members sifted through the nominations and narrowed the field down to 10 Top Hospitalists, who are profiled here.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/cover.htm
15 Nov 2008
Calling for backup before it's needed
Failure to rescue, the failure to identify patients with critical abnormalities and provide the resources necessary to prevent harm, was one of the top three preventable errors found in hospitals in 2004-2006, accounting for 17% of total errors. Experts offer their solutions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/rescue.htm
15 Nov 2008
In the News
AHRQ funds program to reduce ICU infections, and other medical updates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/itn.htm
15 Nov 2008
Finding an algorithm for heart failure
The OPTIMIZE-HF study showed which symptoms predicted likelihood of in-hospital mortality from decompensated congestive heart failure and what were the most important predictive factors. Now, there's an algorithm for stratifying patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/heart.htm
15 Nov 2008
Windshield time and North Dakota nice
Despite having one of the country's lowest reimbursement rates, North Dakota offers above average scores on access, quality, utilization, equity and health outcomes in recent rankings.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/dakota.htm
15 Nov 2008
Community hospitals branch out to clinical research
Clinical research at community hospitals in collaboration with academic medical facilities is gaining traction around the U.S.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/research.htm
15 Dec 2008
Coding corner
Billing for interactions with a patient’s family or other caregiver More than 44 million Americans care for an adult family member or friend. Physicians often will discuss the care of a patient with the patient’s caregivers, and may be able to bill for these interactions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/coding.htm
15 Dec 2008