Search results for "physicians' role"
Quality over cost: New book focuses on physicians' role in improving value
The book's authors discuss the importance of high-value health care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/08/book-high-value-care.htm
15 Aug 2015
Fixing patients and the planet
Started in April 2012 by 16 entities, the effort to reduce the health care industry's contribution to environmental degradation and spur sustainable change has grown to more than 700 hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/08/coverstory.htm
15 Aug 2013
Seeking agreement on SDOH screening
Hospitals struggle with how to handle social determinants of health.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/seeking-agreement-on-sdoh-screening.htm
15 Mar 2020
Hospitalists weigh ethical, practical impacts of aid-in-dying laws
Early experience with California's End of Life Option Act highlights some of the challenges and concerns with allowing physicians to help seriously ill patients end their lives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/impacts-of-aid-in-dying-laws.htm
15 Jan 2018
Aphorism-based medicine
Analyzing medical truisms can help us understand how medicine has progressed over time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/09/free/newman.htm
15 Sep 2014
Ethics committee brings medical dilemmas to life
A passerby wandering into the room might have been shocked by the ethics being displayed by physicians on stage during a session on ethical challenges. For example, Kathy Faber-Langendoen, FACP, described how she prescribed opiates for her own mother, and accused physicians of having left her grandmother to die.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/13/3.htm
13 Apr 2011
Stroke units: Not just for big hospitals anymore
Evidence is mounting that they result in better care and little if any additional cost.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/04/stroke-units.htm
15 Apr 2014
In the News
Aspirin after pancreas surgery, appropriate use criteria for noninvasive vascular tests, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/itn.htm
15 Nov 2013
Physicians view other parties as responsible for reducing costs of health care, survey finds
Physicians believe other parties, including trial lawyers, health insurance companies, and hospitals and health systems, bear greater responsibility than they do for reducing health care costs, according to a recent survey.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/31/1.htm
31 Jul 2013
Understanding nocturnists
Most hospitalist programs misunderstand how to attract and keep quality physicians in this role, the author says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/nocturnist-tips.htm
15 Oct 2016
Hospitalists discuss pandemic effects on women physicians, propose solutions
Participants in a series of focus groups called for policy and system changes to address gender disparities in medicine and the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the careers of women hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/13/hospitalists-discuss-pandemic-effects-on-women-physicians-propose-solutions.htm
13 Sep 2023
Secrets of the great attendings
Great teaching physicians share some habits, according to Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, MACP.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/secrets-of-the-great-attendings.htm
15 Jul 2021
Ventilation, telehospitalists, and more on COVID-19
This issue offers tools to fight the pandemic, as well as analysis of vitamin C for sepsis and articles on cardiomyopathy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 May 2020
Getting the most from advanced practice providers
Hospitalists team up with nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/advanced-practice-providers.htm
15 Dec 2016
Embracing the spiritual
Most patients don't want their physicians to play God, but discussing God is another matter.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/03/qa.htm
15 Mar 2012
Me, my fridge, and I
We take refrigeration for granted, but a geriatric fridge plays an important (and humorous) role in one physician's work from home.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/26/free/newman-me-my-fridge-and-i.htm
26 Jan 2022
Facing change together
A hospitalist calls for collaboration during the pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/07/perspectives-facing-change-together.htm
15 Jul 2020
Concussion care, from an NFL expert
ED conference features football players' association medical director.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/concussion-care-conference-coverage.htm
15 Dec 2016
Physicians step up as initiatives change nursing home care
National efforts are underway to improve the quality of care for patients with dementia.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/03/nursing-homes.htm
15 Mar 2015
A hospital compares outcomes of teaching and hospitalist teams
Dr. Chin's study looked at length of stay, readmissions, and costs among 3 types of inpatient medicine teams.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/11/qa.htm
15 Nov 2014