Search results for "Rounding"
New Curbsiders podcast episode: Strategies for teaching in the hospital
Clinician-educator Jeff Wiese, MD, MACP, addresses strategies to help new attending physicians assess, monitor, teach, and coach medical learners.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/10/7.htm
10 Jul 2019
Take a bite out of HAP
Brushing teeth reduces hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) risk, and changes are needed to make this simple practice happen more regularly in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/06/free/take-a-bite-out-of-hap.htm
6 Mar 2024
Standardized bedside attending rounds increased patient satisfaction
The study's intervention included huddling to establish the rounding schedule and priorities, conducting bedside rounds, integrating bedside nurses, entering orders in bedside computers, and updating patient-room whiteboards.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/01/1.htm
1 Mar 2017
Lots to learn about long-term care
A new curriculum helped hospitalists moving into postacute care fill gaps in their knowledge base.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/lots-to-learn-about-long-term-care.htm
28 Feb 2024
March 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/
Model simulates effects of proposed changes to hospital staffing and wards
Researchers simulated four scenarios: geographically localizing housestaff and patients, adding a nursing unit, adding a hospitalist team, and adding both a nursing unit and a hospitalist team.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/05/3.htm
5 Dec 2018
July 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/
Residents report that ‘warm handoffs' enhance patient safety
One residency program implemented a protocol in which the incoming and outgoing residents met at the end of a ward rotation to sign out and jointly round on sicker patients using a bedside-rounding checklist.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/23/2.htm
23 Aug 2017
Measuring hospitalist busyness
Busy hospitalists list fewer differential diagnoses. A researcher ponders the implications for diagnostic error.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/06/measuring-hospitalist-busyness.htm
6 Dec 2023
Rounding on discharging patients first didn't improve efficiency metrics
Instructing hospitalists and their teams to prioritize seeing the patients being discharged that day didn't significantly change discharge order times or length of stay compared to usual care, a multicenter study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/01/rounding-on-discharging-patients-first-didnt-improve-efficiency-metrics.htm
1 Mar 2023