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Patients diagnosed with a chronic disease in childhood who received care in the med-peds line had a 33% lower relative risk of hospital readmission after 30 days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/15/transition-service-reduced-readmissions-in-young-adults-with-chronic-childhood-onset-disease.htm
15 Nov 2023
Reducing returns to the ED
A transition clinic smoothed care for patients, the ED, and hospitalists, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/14/reducing-returns-to-the-ed.htm
14 Jun 2023
New commandments for consults
A hospitalist offered her advice on the rules of giving and getting inpatient consultations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/10/free/new-commandments-for-consults.htm
10 May 2023
Learning on the late shift
Training programs and hospitalists are working to make night coverage more educational.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/22/free/learning-on-the-late-shift.htm
22 Mar 2023
Video visits for hospital medicine
A pandemic-driven innovation to optimize care after discharge has carried on, with positive reports from patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/04/video-visits-for-hospital-medicine.htm
4 Jan 2023
Familiar faces reduce readmissions
A hospitalist explains how his facility focused a consistent multidisciplinary team on patients who were likely to return to the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/20/free/familiar-faces-reduce-readmissions.htm
20 Jul 2022
Availability of postdischarge care associated with readmission rates
Hospitals in areas with more primary care physicians and licensed nursing home beds per capita had lower readmission rates for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/06/availability-of-postdischarge-care-associated-with-readmission-rates.htm
6 Jul 2022
Racism in the record?
Two authors discuss their recent study finding that Black patients were twice as likely as White patients to be described with negative words in their history and physical notes, particularly in inpatient records.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/16/free/racism-in-the-record.htm
16 Feb 2022
Open records come to the wards
Hospitals and physicians are adjusting to the new federal requirement to provide patients full access to their entire medical record, including notes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/open-records-come-to-the-wards.htm
15 Jul 2021
Diuretic guidance, endocarditis risks, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/recent-research.htm
15 Jun 2021