In this month’s Archives of Internal Medicine, my colleagues and I report the results of our early experience with hospitalist co-management of neurosurgery patients. We found stratospheric satisfaction among neurosurgeons and nurses, as well as impressive cost reductions ($1400/admission). At the same time, there was no impact on quality or safety, at least as judged [...]
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Hospitalist Co-Management Of Neurosurgery Patients: The Inside Story Of A Winning Intervention
by Bob Wachter on December 23, 2010 in Health Policy, Hospital Care, Hospitalists/Hospital Medicine, Medical Education/Academia
Letter From London
by Bob Wachter on December 13, 2010 in Ambulatory/Primary Care, Health Policy, Quality Improvement
I’ve just returned from a few days in London, scoping things out for a planned sabbatical next fall. In what may be a pale echo of the late Alistair Cooke’s always fascinating “Letters From America,” here are a few of my initial observations: The dominant issue, of course, is the Cameron government’s new austerity program, [...]
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