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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By the Numbers: 39
Percentage growth in health spending in 2010, to $2.6 trillion.
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Shift Fatigue in Healthcare Workers
The Joint Commission in December issued a “Sentinel Event Alert” on the dangers of extended shift fatigue in healthcare workers, particularly for...
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Doctors Help Other Doctors Use Information Technology
Doctors Helping Doctors Transform Health Care, a foundation-supported, nonprofit campaign, was launched Dec. 1 in Washington, D.C., to spur...
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Putting the Right Patient in the Right Bed
A hospitalist-led project to improve bed assignment practices at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., reduced errors in patient...
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Pediatric Hospitalists Share Lessons Learned on the Path to Executive Leadership
A handful of pediatric hospitalists have assumed major administrative responsibilities in their hospitals. Most say their HM experience was...
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Pediatric Hospitalists Climb the Corporate Ladder
Pediatric hospitalists around the country have made inroads into hospital administration roles.
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Reducing Unnecessary Medical Resources as Quality Initiative
“Waste” reduction an expanding target for hospitalists
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Hospitalist/Palliative-Care Collaboration Aims to Reduce Readmissions
Wisconsin hospital sees positive changes since implementing Project BOOST tools
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Hospitalist/Nurse Collaboration Drives Multidisciplinary Rounding
Preliminary data from a multidisciplinary patient rounding system shows higher patient satisfaction, positive feedback from staff.
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Adverse Events and Rural Discharges
The Center on Patient Safety at Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee has been awarded a grant from the federal Agency for...
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Hand Hygiene Makes Headlines
Multiple efforts aim to raise awareness about hand hygiene in health facilities.
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By the Numbers: 57
Percentage of responding physicians who say they are using electronic health records
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CMS Awards First Care-Transition Coalition Grants
Hospitalists should look for ways to participate in federal program, reduce rehospitalization rates
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Seven-Day Schedule Could Improve Hospital Quality, Capacity
A new study evaluating outcomes for hospitals participating in the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines program found no...
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A Multidisciplinary Example
Hospitalists should model successful discharges, quality expert says