Search results for "Teamwork"
Keeping first-year residents with same medicine nurses improved teamwork
When residents spent all 16 weeks of their general medicine inpatient time on one medical nursing floor, their teams were more likely to negotiate with the patient, support each other, and communicate as a team on simulation scenarios, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/12/keeping-first-year-residents-with-same-medicine-nurses-improved-teamwork-study-finds.htm
12 Oct 2022
Inpatient team structure affected resource utilization but not clinical outcomes
While a study found similar costs, length of stay, 30-day readmissions, and inpatient mortality among teams with hospitalists, advanced practice clinicians, or residents at one academic medical center, hospitalist teams discharged patients more efficiently with fewer consults.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/25/4.htm
25 Nov 2020
October 12, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/12/
January 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/01/
Physician resuscitation champions associated with higher rates of surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest
In a survey study, hospitals that had a very active physician champion of Get With the Guidelines—Resuscitation were four times more likely to be in a higher survival quintile than participating hospitals that did not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/24/4.htm
24 Feb 2021
September 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/
Studies examine impact of hospital policies on C. difficile infection rates
While one study found that participation in an antibiotic stewardship program from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality led to reductions in hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection rates, a simulation study found that visitor contact precautions may not be as helpful.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/03/4.htm
3 Mar 2021
July 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/
Teams that don't burn out
Supporting consistent hospital medicine teams may be a key to preventing burnout, according to a researcher studying physician and nurse perspectives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/28/teams-that-dont-burn-out.htm
28 Sep 2022
Tough times for hospital finances
After a rough year, execs are looking for ways to get out of the red in 2023. They offered ideas on how hospitalists can help.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/25/free/tough-times-for-hospital-finances.htm
25 Jan 2023