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Bringing Acute-Level Care to the Patient: Key Steps for Hospital at Home
Shutterstock.com As the hospital at home concept and care model gets more attention nationally, hospitalists often provide the leadership, clinical expertise, and labor needed to get these programs off the ground. Although the model’s regulatory and reimbursement foundations remain uncertain, and many established programs remain small, two decades of positive outcomes—demonstrating improved safety, shorter lengths of stay, reduced readmissions, lower costs and mortality rates, and, especially, higher patient satisfaction—would seem to demand finding a way to make it work. “Given the clinical outcomes and patient ...
Source: The Hospitalist - August 1, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Hospital Medicine Patient Safety Practice Management Quality Improvement Source Type: research

Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis and as Hospitalists, It ’ s Time to Step Up
I did not think that becoming a pediatric hospitalist would require me to become an expert in firearm injury, but here I am. Every day more than 300 people are shot in the United States.1,2 That fact alone has forced me and every other hospitalist in the country to learn how to care for individuals with firearm injuries. But learning how to care for these patients is not enough. Firearm injuries are preventable, and we must use our expertise to help create a safer world for our patients and our communities. Gun violence is a public health crisis and we, as hospitalists, are not only qualified to advocate for change, we are...
Source: The Hospitalist - July 12, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Lisa Casinger Tags: Advocacy Business of Medicine Career Clinical Guidelines Critical Care Education Health Policy Hospital Medicine Leadership Practice Management Quality Improvement Source Type: research

A Consensus-Driven Approach to Redesigning Graduate Medical Education: The Pediatric Anesthesiology Delphi Study
CONCLUSIONS: A Delphi process achieved robust consensus in assessing current training and recommending future directions for pediatric anesthesiology graduate medical education.PMID:35777829 | DOI:10.1213/ANE.0000000000006128 (Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia)
Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - July 1, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Aditee P Ambardekar Whitney Eriksen Marla B Ferschl Peggy P McNaull Ira T Cohen William J Greeley Justin L Lockman Source Type: research

Standardized Medical Coding Curriculum in Surgical Graduate Medical Education
CONCLUSION: Coding and billing discrepancies among students, residents, and surgeons persist due to a lack of formalized training. Integration of standardized and mandated medical coding curricula and interventions within residency programs has great potential to improve surgical coding practices and should be a mandatory component of graduate medical education.PMID:35706329 | DOI:10.1177/00031348221109470 (Source: The American Surgeon)
Source: The American Surgeon - June 16, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Sruthi Selvakumar Micah Ngatuvai Ruth Zagales Matthew Sauder Adel Elkbuli Source Type: research

Onboarding Changes in the Wake of the Pandemic
The switch from in-person to virtual takes away a personal touch, but also offers some convenience hospitals may continue to use The COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone to work a little differently, including hospitalists involved with onboarding. From virtual sessions to new ways to connect in person, the two-plus years of pandemic-style onboarding have left behind some permanent changes, as well as some plans to return to onboarding as it was done before. Here’s how the pandemic shifted onboarding at three hospitals across the U.S. and what they learned along the way. Baystate Health, Springfield, Mass. Dr. Medarametla ...
Source: The Hospitalist - June 1, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Career Leadership Practice Management Source Type: research

A Look Back at The Masters in HM
Every year since, 2009, SHM has awarded the Master in Hospital Medicine (MHM) designation to those members who reach the apex of distinguished prestige in the hospital medicine community. These members have made remarkable and significant contributions to the HM field and health care in general. At this year’s SHM Converge, MHM designees for 2022, 2021, and 2020 were recognized in person for the first time. These members stand out with their character, positions of honor, contributions toward furthering SHM goals, distinction in practice, education, medical research, and achievements in science or the art of hospital med...
Source: The Hospitalist - May 12, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Lisa Casinger Tags: Career Converge Uncategorized Source Type: research

Prescriptions for health and happiness
In addition to all the fear and chaos it has wreaked, COVID-19 has changed the way we think about our health. Thanks to the psychological, and even the physical, impacts of protracted quarantines and shutdowns, many of us have come to realize that feeling healthy is more than the absence of disease. We feel our healthiest when experiencing positive emotions, when feeling calm and at peace, when connecting with others, and when taking in beauty with a sense of wonder. So, isn’t it the right time for our health care system to start explicitly prescribing a dose of what we’re all finding to be true? Could clinicians shift...
Source: The Hospitalist - May 2, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Lisa Casinger Tags: Drug Therapy Hospital Medicine Medication Reconciliation Mental Health Practice Management Source Type: research