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Population health 101

WEBDavid A. Frenz, MD, is a hospitalist for HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn., and is board certified in both family and addiction medicine. You can learn more …

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Can't stop your patient from leaving AMA

WEBAt her facility, patients who leave AMA—1% of all discharges from the medical/surgical wards—have an incredibly high readmission rate: as much as 44% at 30 days, …

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When gossip among physicians can be a good thing

WEBAnd yet, the exchange of information via gossip is awfully important for any group to stay efficient. Phyllis Maguire is Executive Editor of Today’s Hospitalist. …

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A 10-year look at patient volumes

WEBIt would be great if nocturnists were analyzed separately and with questions pertaining to the unique aspects of that type of shift that don’t apply or exist for daytime hospitalists …

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Medical necessity, or medically necessary

WEBMedicare defines medical necessity as “services or items that are reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury or to improve the …

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When should you measure hospital census

WEBAt UCSF, the study found, hospitalists’ average daily census peaked at 11 a.m. and was the lowest at 7 p.m., with an average delta between those two times of 9.1 …

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Home Hospitalist Jobs

WEBFeatured jobs. Job Title. Hospitalist Opportunities--Gorgeous Lakes, Ideal Climate, Award-winning Downtown. Prisma Health - Greenville, South Carolina, United …

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Tough conversations: What to say when sharing a bad prognosis

WEBFOR HOSPITALISTS, tough conversations with patients about serious illness is a daily fact of life.Survey results published by the Journal of Palliative Medicine …

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True health care reform

WEBLet’s review some of the numbers. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 15% or approximately 46 million Americans are uninsured. Some analysts predict that this …

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When it comes to improving patient care, redundancy is not a bad …

WEBDr. Gross says a primary goal of the team is to reduce admissions to the ICU by intervening in deteriorating patients before they need attention from critical care …

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Is quality improvement cost-effective

WEBPublished in the May 2017 issue of Today’s Hospitalist. DO QUALITY IMPROVEMENT projects pay off? According to a new study, the answer is a definite “yes,” at least when …

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What's your payer mix

WEBPayment differential. Payer mix refers to the percentage of patients with government health plans — Medicare and Medicaid — vs. commercial or “private” …

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Transfer delays: hospitals’ new bottlenecks, chronic problems

WEBSeptember 2022. IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, hospitalist Allison Walton, MD, is trying to manage an ongoing crisis that started with the pandemic and still persists: long delays …

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What happens when patients are discharged from hospice care

WEBA study in the August issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics found that of the 139 patients who were discharged from a hospice, slightly more than one …

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Tiered safety huddles target zero harm

WEBWhen Ballad Health first adopted its zero harm initiative, it set itself a “30-90” goal: reducing a specific hospital-acquired condition by 30% within 90 days across the …

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Handoffs: A fatal case of miscommunication

WEBSusan Shepard MSN, MA, RN, is director of patient safety education at The Doctors Company, a national medical malpractice insurer based in Napa, Calif. …

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Uncompleted procedures

WEBIf, however, the physician needed to discontinue the procedure because the patient became unstable, with respiratory distress or tachycardia, for instance, bill the …

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Split visit billing rules for physicians and NPs/PAs

WEBIN NOVEMBER 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) set off a bombshell with new rules governing how physicians and NPs/PAs can …

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