Practice Management
Clinical
Rural hospitalists confront COVID-19
Hospital medicine continues to extend into rural communities and small rural hospitals.
News
COVID-19 ICU visit restrictions add to staff stress, burnout
Practice Management
Geographic cohorting increased direct care time and interruptions
Does geographic cohorting improve hospitalist efficiency?
Practice Management
Open ICUs giveth and taketh away
Do open ICUs improve or detract from patient care and education?
Practice Management
Resident physician work-hour regulations associated with improved physician safety and health
Do consecutive work-hour restrictions for first-year resident physicians improve physician safety?
News
Major insurers running billions of dollars behind on payments to hospitals and doctors
Substantial payment delays can be seen on Anthem’s books. On June 30, 2019, before the pandemic, 43% of the insurer’s medical bills for that...
News
Two Colorado nurses admit to stealing drugs from hospital patients
One nurse gained access to rooms of patients who weren’t assigned to her and diverted drugs from their pain-on-demand devices.
Clinical
Telehealth models of care for pediatric hospital medicine
Telehealth standards of care are the same as in-person care.
Practice Management
Mean leadership
Leadership requires the investment of deliberate practice, financial acumen, negotiation skills, and increased vulnerability.
News
Nurses ‘at the breaking point,’ consider quitting due to COVID issues: Survey
“Hospitals can have all the beds and all the rooms and all the equipment they want, but without nurses and others at the front lines to provide...