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WEBA UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN study delivers a provocative suggestion: The features of patient rooms may affect outcomes, at least among patients undergoing high-risk surgeries. According to the …

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Gender gap in hospital medicine: Do women have the same …

WEBResults of the 2015 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey indicate that full-time women hospitalists who treat adults report earning 16% less than their male …

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Population health 101

WEBDavid A. Frenz, MD, is a hospitalist for HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn., and is board certified in both family and addiction medicine. You can learn more …

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When should you measure hospital census

WEBAt UCSF, the study found, hospitalists’ average daily census peaked at 11 a.m. and was the lowest at 7 p.m., with an average delta between those two times of 9.1 …

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Home Hospitalist Jobs

WEBFeatured jobs. Job Title. ADULT HOSPITALIST IN MAINE. MaineHealth - Biddeford, Maine, United States. Join a community hospital setting near Portland, …

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2023 COMPENSATION & CAREER GUIDE

WEBIn our latest survey, high levels of dissatisfaction are down. Data from our 2023 survey show that one in five hospitalists said they were very satisfied with their career. That’s a …

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Tough conversations: What to say when sharing a bad prognosis

WEBFOR HOSPITALISTS, tough conversations with patients about serious illness is a daily fact of life.Survey results published by the Journal of Palliative Medicine …

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Which scheduling strategies work the best

WEBBy comparison, the number of programs using hybrid schedules that mix call-only and shift-based scheduling grew 8%, to 35% of hospitalist groups. And 40% of …

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Medical necessity, or medically necessary

WEBMedicare defines medical necessity as “services or items that are reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury or to improve the …

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How to ace the job interview process

WEBPlan on writing an individual note to everyone involved in the interview process, including all the principals. “And if you really want to score a home run,” Ms. …

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Transfer delays: hospitals’ new bottlenecks, chronic problems

WEBSeptember 2022. IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, hospitalist Allison Walton, MD, is trying to manage an ongoing crisis that started with the pandemic and still persists: long delays …

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Can't stop your patient from leaving AMA

WEBAt her facility, patients who leave AMA—1% of all discharges from the medical/surgical wards—have an incredibly high readmission rate: as much as 44% at …

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Success with midlevels: How does your group stack up

WEBToday, the PAs at Gifford care for about 60% of all patients, with hospitalists handling the other 40%. Multidisciplinary morning rounds keep the group’s four …

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Handoffs: A fatal case of miscommunication

WEBSusan Shepard MSN, MA, RN, is director of patient safety education at The Doctors Company, a national medical malpractice insurer based in Napa, Calif. …

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The right way to bill consults

WEBIf a social worker or therapist asks for your clinical opinion, bill that encounter using one of the initial hospital care codes (99221-99223). If another physician has …

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Tiered safety huddles target zero harm

WEBWhen Ballad Health first adopted its zero harm initiative, it set itself a “30-90” goal: reducing a specific hospital-acquired condition by 30% within 90 days across the …

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One researcher’s view of what’s wrong with living wills

WEBThat, combined with the crushing cost of advance directives to hospitals, has led her “and a number of end-of-life experts “to conclude that living wills don’t work. In …

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