Search results for "Health Care Costs"
Filling hospital beds
Experts predict the potential effects of universal health coverage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/12/filling-hospital-beds.htm
15 Dec 2019
When algorithms are biased
A care management algorithm underestimated the needs of black patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/qa-when-algorithms-are-biased.htm
15 Feb 2020
How to be appealing: Peer-to-peer conversations 101
Typically there is general agreement between the clinical side and the payer side. But reasonable people can disagree.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/perspectives-how-to-be-appealing-peer-to-peer-conversations-101.htm
15 Aug 2020
Private equity and hospitals
Experts and research look at effects of health care investing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/private-equity-and-hospitals.htm
15 Dec 2020
Men with heart failure more likely to be admitted, get intensive treatment at end of life
Researchers couldn't determine whether women with heart failure were less likely to be hospitalized or to receive intensive or invasive care due to undertreatment of women or overtreatment of men at the end of life.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/12/23/4.htm
23 Dec 2020
Fighting for equal renal care
This issue looks at race in clinical algorithms, dialysis for undocumented patients, and inpatient care for Native American patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jan 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
Nurse-led mobile EKG monitoring in the hospital appears cost-effective after initial stroke
An Australian study found that mobile EKG monitoring was associated with marginally higher costs and more quality-adjusted life-years over a 20-year time horizon than 24-hour Holter monitoring during an index hospitalization for stroke.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/20/nurse-led-mobile-ekg-monitoring-in-the-hospital-appears-cost-effective-after-initial-stroke.htm
20 Apr 2022
OPAT has similar safety, lower costs versus inpatient antibiotic therapy
Patients receiving outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) after hospitalization for bacterial infection had 90-day adverse event rates of 35.6% compared to 39.0% in those who stayed in the hospital for parenteral antimicrobial therapy, a retrospective Canadian study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/27/opat-has-similar-safety-lower-costs-versus-inpatient-antibiotic-therapy.htm
27 Apr 2022
Study finds low adherence to price transparency mandate across U.S. hospitals
As of Jan. 1, 2021, a federal rule requires hospitals to disclose five types of standard charges for all services and to provide a consumer-friendly display for at least 300 services. Six to nine months after it went into effect, more than half of hospitals had met neither requirement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/study-finds-low-adherence-to-price-transparency-mandate-across-us-hospitals.htm
15 Jun 2022