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Good medicine? Health systems address patients’ social determinants of health
TO ILLUSTRATE how health systems are stepping up to address patients’ social issues, Amit Vashist, MD, MBA, senior vice president and chief clinical officer of Ballad Health, a regional health system...
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No joke: improving respiratory rate readings
GIVEN THE HIGH COSTS and mortality of sepsis, the need for accurate respiratory rate readings—which are a key factor in sepsis scoring and early warning systems—is clear. But amazingly, just about...
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PPE
BY EARLY MAY, Edward Ma, MD—a hospitalist in a community hospital in the Philadelphia suburbs—had been treating covid patients for several weeks. While his hospital had ample personal protective...
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Innovating during the pandemic
IN PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS running on TV stations in Amarillo, Texas, Sheryl Williams, MD, hospitalist and medical director of quality, stands in a hospital hallway in PPE, talking about how...
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Big payoff for performance feedback
WHEN THE HOSPITALISTS at Milwaukee’s Medical College of Wisconsin launched a quality improvement project in July 2018, they employed many strategies that will be familiar to hospitalists. There was,...
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Meeting patients where they need care
SPONSORED POST AS WE BEGIN EASING back into many of the societal norms we enjoyed pre-pandemic, we can’t take for granted the lessons learned about the importance of meeting patients where and when...
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Streamlining admission decisions
WHAT IS A TRIAGIST? The answer to that question depends on who you ask—and in what hospital system they work. In 2018, for example, researchers surveyed more than 200 hospitalists who rotated through...
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Hospitalist performance reviews: What’s missing?
I RECENTLY ATTENDED one of our monthly hospitalist meetings, which had a very professional PowerPoint presentation on “Quality and Performance.” The program depicted various initials that signified...
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Hospitalist length of stay: a measure past its time
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS abound in health care: denial rates, collection percentages, average case mix index and many more. One of the most common metrics used to measure hospitalist performance is...
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Midnight Census
IF YOUR HOSPITAL is like most others, it’s measuring patient census at midnight, the traditional marker used to gauge how many patients are hospitalized. Why has midnight census become such a...
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