Search results for "Utilization"
Inpatient team structure affected resource utilization but not clinical outcomes
While a study found similar costs, length of stay, 30-day readmissions, and inpatient mortality among teams with hospitalists, advanced practice clinicians, or residents at one academic medical center, hospitalist teams discharged patients more efficiently with fewer consults.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/25/4.htm
25 Nov 2020
The limited evidence for IV albumin
An expert explains recent guidelines on IV albumin that recommended against the blood product in the settings where it is most commonly used.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/10/the-limited-evidence-for-iv-albumin.htm
10 Apr 2024
The ACO SNF waiver
Learn how an accountable care organization (ACO) can help get your patient into a skilled nursing facility (SNF).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/21/free/the-aco-snf-waiver.htm
21 Feb 2024
High ICU utilization for 4 common conditions may drive up costs without improving mortality, study finds
The retrospective cohort study ranked 94 hospitals in Washington State and Maryland by their predicted ICU utilization rates for adult patients hospitalized for diabetic ketoacidosis, pulmonary embolism, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and congestive heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/10/1.htm
10 Aug 2016
December 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/
Hospitalist care associated with higher costs, more medical utilization after discharge
Though hospitalist care is associated with shorter length of stay and lower hospital costs, these are offset by more medical utilization and higher costs after discharge, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/03/1.htm
3 Aug 2011
November 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/11/
CT perfusion imaging not often available at hospitals treating acute ischemic stroke
In findings from a Texas Medicare cohort validated with national data, 3% of patients with acute ischemic stroke were evaluated with CT perfusion, and most cases were evaluated at hospitals that did not offer this test.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/31/4.htm
31 Mar 2021
July 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/
November 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/