Search results for "Your Practice"
Do you know this surgeon?
With general surgeons in increasingly short supply, more hospitals will have to bring in temporary surgeons to help fill the demand for emergency and routine surgical services.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/surgeon.htm
15 Aug 2009
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
Clearing or clouding the mind?
Antipsychotics can resolve agitation in patients with delirium, but that may not provide much overall benefit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/delirium.htm
15 Nov 2011
A matter of respect
Disruptive behavior is common in U.S. hospitals, according to a recent survey.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/04/disruptive.htm
15 Apr 2010
Assisted suicide
The prescribing of lethal medication remains highly controversial as clinicians struggle to balance the autonomy of terminally ill patients and the commitment to do no harm.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/09/suicide.htm
15 Sep 2010
Want to know why a patient's readmitted? Ask him.
Physicians, hospital administrators and even politicians are eagerly searching for ways to reduce hospital readmissions. But one closely involved party isn't typically consulted: the patient.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/readmission.htm
15 Apr 2011
For hospitalists, hard work doesn't mean higher pay
Pay per relative value unit differs by geography.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/salary.htm
15 Jul 2011
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
Hypertensive emergencies
Not everyone with extremely high blood pressure meets the criteria.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/10/hypertensive.htm
15 Oct 2010
2012 diagnostic documentation update
If there is any certainty in the health care industry today, it is that things will change.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/09/coding.htm
15 Sep 2012