Search results for "Handoffs"
Treating addiction behind bars
Incarcerated patients have a right to medication for opioid use disorder, and hospitalists can help them access it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/31/treating-addiction-behind-bars.htm
31 May 2023
Adding up adverse events
Patient safety experts talk about the latest data and what hospitalists can do to improve them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/adding-up-adverse-events.htm
7 Jun 2023
Improving handoffs through better communication
Research has shown that speakers systematically overestimate how well their messages are understood by listeners, and assume a listener has all the same knowledge they do. Verbal updates and read-backs can help.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/handoffs.htm
15 Jul 2009
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue features our 2015 Top Hospitalists, along with a feature on detecting human trafficking and an Expert Analysis on malignant bowel obstruction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/11/lfe.htm
15 Nov 2015
Top Docs
Meet ACP Hospitalist's 2015 Top Hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/11/top-hospitalists-2015.htm
15 Nov 2015
Winning abstracts at Hospital Medicine 2011 propose ways to save time, money
GRAPEVINE, TX—New strategies for conserving physician time and health care spending captured awards in the abstract competition at the annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine, held here last week.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/05/18/2.htm
18 May 2011
Finding a job that fits
The right “cultural fit” between a hospital and a physician may be what guarantees a fulfilling career.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/01/coverstory.htm
15 Jan 2014
Dialogue: Communication at discharge
Lee W. Roof, ACP Member, a primary care internist, and Dawn Brezina, ACP Member, a hospitalist, offer their perspectives on how hospitalists and PCPs can improve communication during handoffs at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/improve-comm.htm
15 Oct 2007
Results pending at discharge often stay in limbo
Handoffs from inpatient to outpatient care are a known problem area in hospital medicine, and one of the biggest opportunities for improvement could involve results of tests pending at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/pending.htm
15 Dec 2009
Improving handoffs from the ED
Just because disagreement between hospitalists and emergency physicians is natural, it's not necessarily unavoidable.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/10/ED.htm
15 Oct 2011