Larry Beresford is an Oakland, Calif.-based freelance medical journalist with a breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, management and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death, and dying. He is a longtime contributor to The Hospitalist, for which he covers re-admissions, pain management, palliative care, physician stress and burnout, quality improvement, waste prevention, practice management, innovation, and technology. He also contributes to Medscape. Learn more about his work at www.larryberesford.com; follow him on Twitter @larryberesford.
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ED staff speak out about workplace violence, ask for mitigation
How much is workplace violence contributing to the great resignation in health care and what might be done to make clinicians feel more supported...
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Does morning discharge really improve hospital throughput?
Focus on the actual processes that create bottlenecks preventing throughput.
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Telemedicine, triaging, remote monitoring top list of COVID-era innovations in oncology
“We had assumed that telemedicine would be the wave of the future and cancer patients would love it.” – Aaron Begue
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Hospitalists helped plan COVID-19 field hospitals
Better to plan for too much than not plan for enough, say hospitalists who helped build COVID-19 field hospitals.
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Most community physicians say clinical pathways improve care
Oncology clinical pathways were adopted by more health care providers this year, a new survey shows.
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Rural hospitalists confront COVID-19
Hospital medicine continues to extend into rural communities and small rural hospitals.
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COVID vaccine controversies: How can hospitalists help?
Hospitalists need to pull whatever levers they can to help advance understanding of vaccines.
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Hospitalists address patient experience during the pandemic
“A lot of the care hospitalists provide involves touch, sitting down and looking at the patient eye to eye, on the same level.” says Dr. Minesh...
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Hospital disaster preparation confronts COVID
“We weren’t able to grasp the scale [of COVID-19] at the outset. It does defy the imagination,” said Dr. Jason Persoff.
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Professional versus facility billing: What hospitalists must know
Hospitalists don’t often realize how much impact they have on their hospital’s revenue cycle and quality.
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Moral distress in the COVID era weighs on hospitalists
“The volume of deaths and the apparent dangers to providers themselves reflect some of the critical aspects of war,” Dr. Asken said.
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Hospital medicine around the world
Adaptations of the hospitalist model vary across countries, reflecting local culture, payment models, and medical education.
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SHM CEO Eric Howell likes to fix things
“It turns out medicine in the hospital is just as specialized as any other specialty.” – Dr. Eric Howell
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Weight loss may be paramount lifestyle change in preventing gout
“Don’t lose sight of the lifestyle risk factors, which are interrelated. This is not only the responsibility of one doctor or the other,” said Dr...
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COVID redefines curriculum for hospitalists-in-training
The COVID-19 pandemic forced medical schools to get back to basics.