Quality
Practice Management
Geographic cohorting increased direct care time and interruptions
Does geographic cohorting improve hospitalist efficiency?
Clinical
QI reduces daily labs and promotes sleep-friendly lab timing
Will a quality improvement project involving physician education and an EHR shortcut reduce the quantity and optimize the timing of daily routine...
News
New CMS rule challenges hospitals, but not vendors, to make EHRs safer
When hospitals and health care systems start to assess their systems, many will be surprised at what they are not doing or not doing right, one...
Quality
Choosing Wisely campaign targets waste and overuse in hospital pediatrics
Multiple medical societies collaborated to develop guidelines for high-value care with less unnecessary testing and hospitalization.
Quality
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...
Perspectives
An ethics challenge in hospital medicine
It is important not to force a premature resolution of the situation through unilateral or coercive decisions.
From the Society
SHM’s Center for Quality Improvement to partner on NIH grant
Study will identify interventions to rapidly improve care for children hospitalized with respiratory illnesses.
Perspectives
“Enough English” to be at risk
One way to bypass language barriers is to recognize the value added by hiring and training bilingual health care providers.
Clinical
Clinician practices to connect with patients
What practices foster physician presence and connection with their patients?
Quality
Hotspotting does not reduce readmissions
Does the addition of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Provider’s care-transition program prevent hospital readmission in high utilizers of...