Search results for "Technology"
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
Smart surfing: Finding the best medical Web sites
One expert offers tips on sorting the good from the bad.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/medical-websites.htm
15 Oct 2007
Better communication at the end of life
Form ensures dying patients' wishes are carried out as medical orders.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/patient-wishes.htm
15 Oct 2007
Q&A: Nurturing the human side of medical care
Nearly 20 years ago, Arnold P. Gold, MD, a pediatric neurologist, and his wife, Sandra O. Gold, EdD, a psychologist, created the Arnold P.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/human-side.htm
15 Oct 2007
In the News
OIG approves medical center's payment plan for ED coverage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/itn.htm
15 Dec 2007
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: How to find, and treat, the source
It accounts for 5% of all cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhage. It requires an average of 7.3 diagnostic tests, five hospitalizations and 46 units of blood per patient to evaluate.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/gi.htm
15 Dec 2007
Beyond the bundle: Innovative ways to prevent VAP in the intensive care unit
Legislators, payers and quality-of-care advocates across the nation are considering requiring hospitals to report ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates as a way to benchmark quality of care and penalize poor performers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/vap.htm
15 Dec 2007
Picture boards help those who can't speak for themselves
More hospitals are using pictures to communicate with non-English speakers, the deaf and other nonverbal patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/pictures.htm
15 Jan 2008
E-learning for everyone
Virtual patients expose students and physicians to a wide range of clinical scenarios.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/elearning.htm
15 Feb 2008
New end-of-life guidelines help physicians fill gap in patient care
Donald E. Casey Jr., FACP, discusses new end-of-life guidelines.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/qa.htm
15 Mar 2008