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In the news
AHA recommendations on decreasing drug errors, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/09/itn.htm
15 Sep 2010
Physicians of the night
Disparities between day and night care, as well as new guidelines and public pressure, are pushing hospital administrators and hospitalist practices to offer 24/7 care. Quite a few hospitalists are willing to work at night under the right circumstances.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/cover.htm
15 Dec 2008
Top Docs
The doctors recognized in ACP Hospitalist’s first annual Top Hospitalists issue include teachers, quality improvement gurus, researchers and bloggers. They’ve focused on improving geriatric care, growing hospital admissions, facilitating transitions of care and raising staff satisfaction. ACP Hospitalist’s editorial board members sifted through the nominations and narrowed the field down to 10 Top Hospitalists, who are profiled here.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/cover.htm
15 Nov 2008
Diagnoses of Medicare ICU patients have shifted
Cardiovascular disease remains the top disease category of primary diagnoses, but it declined yearly from 1996 to 2010, while infection-related diagnoses, especially sepsis, rose.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/23/2.htm
23 Mar 2016
Med school slots continuing to increase, AAMC says
Increases in medical school enrollment are likely to almost meet the 30% target set by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in 2006, according to new projections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/09/4.htm
9 May 2012
CDC issues recommendations for prescribing opioids for chronic pain
The recommendations focused on 3 areas: starting or continuing opioids for chronic pain; opioid selection, dosage, duration, follow-up, and discontinuation; and assessing risk and addressing harms of opioid use.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/23/4.htm
23 Mar 2016
IOM report: Geographic adjustment methods for Medicare payments need revisions
The methods for calculating geographic adjustments of Medicare payments to hospitals and private practice health professionals need revisions, which will increase or reduce payment amounts to many facilities, a new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report suggests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/06/08/1.htm
8 Jun 2011
A vision of the future
The chairman and CEO of IPC discusses current trends and future possibilities.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/07/qa.htm
15 Jul 2012
Hospitalists discuss pandemic effects on women physicians, propose solutions
Participants in a series of focus groups called for policy and system changes to address gender disparities in medicine and the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the careers of women hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/13/hospitalists-discuss-pandemic-effects-on-women-physicians-propose-solutions.htm
13 Sep 2023
Latest research shows impact of COVID-19 on other health care
Hospitalizations for stroke and myocardial infarction, ED visits, cancer diagnoses, and trials for conditions other than COVID-19 all dropped during the pandemic, recent studies showed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/08/12/1.htm
12 Aug 2020