Challenges of prolonging hospital stays
In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a rheumatologist at a teaching hospital lamented about “hospital problems,” a phenomenon where patients are not allowed to stay in the hospital when they no longer have a medical necessity for hospital care, even though the physician may want to keep the patient longer
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Challenges of prolonging hospital stays originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Deepak Goyal, MD and Ronald Hirsch, MD Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
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