Search results for "Workforce"
Mobile app may help assess hospitalist clinicians' perceptions of workload
The newly developed app captured data on 30 clinicians' workload, work environment, leadership support, and well-being in a pilot study at one U.S. academic medical center.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/01/mobile-app-may-help-assess-hospitalist-clinicians-perceptions-of-workload.htm
1 May 2024
Internists recommend ways to better align GME financing with workforce needs
The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and ACP released a new policy paper calling for changes that better align funding for graduate medical education (GME) with the nation's health care workforce needs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/05/11/5.htm
11 May 2016
Patients treated by female hospitalists have better outcomes, study finds
An analysis of Medicare data showed hospital patients had lower mortality and readmission rates when treated by female physicians compared with male physicians, with the difference driven by better outcomes in female patients treated by female hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/01/patients-treated-by-female-hospitalists-have-better-outcomes-study-finds.htm
1 May 2024
August 10, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/10/
Tactics for managing surge capacity evaluated in survey of academic hospital leaders
The most valued strategies included appropriate staffing, proactive data-driven approaches, and discharge planning at the time of admission, yet hospitalist and hospital leaders reported that low-cost solutions like discharge lounges and huddles were usually implemented first.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/12/22/2.htm
22 Dec 2021
September 7, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/07/
ACP, other organizations issued guidance on when to ease social distancing and other COVID-19 restrictions
The College identified five necessary elements that must be in place to ease restrictions, groups issued a joint statement on resuming elective surgeries, and CMS released guidance on resuming essential care for patients without COVID-19 symptoms in regions with low and stable incidence of the virus.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/22/2.htm
22 Apr 2020
Beyond the ‘golf course conversation’
Hospitalists need to think harder about sponsorship to promote diversity and equity, said the authors of a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/17/beyond-the-golf-course-conversation.htm
17 Jan 2024
Racial, ethnic disparities persist in U.S. health care access, spending
Recent studies looked at differences by race and ethnicity in health status and health care access as well as health care spending over time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/25/4.htm
25 Aug 2021
Hospitalist workforce grew steadily from 2012 to 2019
Hospitalists are now one of the top five largest physician specialties in the U.S., according to an analysis of Medicare Part B claim coding patterns. However, relatively few physicians self-identified as hospitalists in Medicare's Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/07/free/hospitalist-workforce-grew-steadily-from-2012-to-2019.htm
7 Sep 2022