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Act quickly and listen a lot
What to do when a patient wants to leave against medical advice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/against.htm
15 Mar 2010
Inpatient medication: Too much information, or not enough?
A recent study showed that many inpatients don't know what medications they're given in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/inpatient.htm
15 Mar 2010
Getting to know you
Daily face-to-face meetings improve outcomes and teamwork.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/02/team.htm
15 Feb 2010
Helping patients kick the habit
In the face of recent reports that U.S. smoking rates are no longer declining, hospitalists may be ideally situated to help patients quit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/smoking.htm
15 Jan 2010
Results pending at discharge often stay in limbo
Handoffs from inpatient to outpatient care are a known problem area in hospital medicine, and one of the biggest opportunities for improvement could involve results of tests pending at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/pending.htm
15 Dec 2009
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/acph-200912-hyperglycemia.pdf
23 Nov 2009
A deviant approach to hospital challenges
Positive deviance is a bottom-up, rather than top-down, approach to solving seemingly intractable problems in an institution or a community. It's based on the observation that certain individuals or groups (positive deviants) have found better solutions to these problems than their peers have.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/positive.htm
15 Nov 2009
Is it observation or inpatient?
The question of “observation or inpatient” has perplexed hospital physicians for some time, but it's recently acquired greater financial significance. Recovery audit contractors paid by Medicare will be looking at hospitals' one-day admissions to determine whether patients were appropriately admitted or should have been under observation status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/observation.htm
15 Nov 2009
Code status discussions sometimes difficult, but necessary
Understanding individual preferences about code status is critical to delivering the care patients want. Still, code discussions between doctors and patients don't always happen when they should, or at all. A 2008 study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that only 10% of patients in six university-based hospitals had documented code discussions within 24 hours of admission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/status.htm
15 Oct 2009
How trustworthy is automated noninvasive blood pressure monitoring?
Most vital signs are now obtained using automated techniques. We put a lot of stock in these numbers. Just how accurate are they?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/traps.htm
15 Oct 2009