Larry Beresford is an Oakland, Calif.-based freelance medical journalist with a breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, management and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death, and dying. He is a longtime contributor to The Hospitalist, for which he covers re-admissions, pain management, palliative care, physician stress and burnout, quality improvement, waste prevention, practice management, innovation, and technology. He also contributes to Medscape. Learn more about his work at www.larryberesford.com; follow him on Twitter @larryberesford.
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Family Physicians Propose Payment for PCPs’ Hospital Consult Visits
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has appealed to some of the nation's largest insurers, asking for coverage of hospital consults...
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Most Important Elements of End-of-Life Care
[caption id="attachment_10755" align="alignright" width="275"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] An Australian team conducted a literature...
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Highest-Volume Hospitals Linked with Lower Risk for Some Procedures
An estimated 11,000 deaths could have been prevented between 2010 and 2012, if patients who went to the U.S. hospitals with the lowest patient...
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New Expectations for Value-Based Healthcare
A new book by three leading hospital medicine advocates for maximizing efficiency and outcomes while managing costs and avoiding waste in...
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Joint Commission Leaders Call on Physicians to Embrace Quality Improvement
In a May 12 JAMA “Viewpoint” article, Mark Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, The Joint Commission’s president and CEO, and David Baker, MD, FACP, MPH,...
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Hospitalists Choose Quality Metrics Most Important to Them
[caption id="attachment_10768" align="alignright" width="250"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] Fantasy sports, hospital medicine, and...
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LISTEN NOW: Hospitalist, Edwin Lopez, PA-C, on Post-Acute Care in the U.S. Health System
Edwin Lopez, PA-C, of St. Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw, Wash., offers his views on post-acute care in the U.S.
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Post-Acute Patient Care Offers Opportunities for Non-Physicians
Setting allows nurse practitioners, physician assistants to play key clinical, administrative roles
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Post-Acute Patient Care New Frontier for Hospitalists
[caption id="attachment_10261" align="alignright" width="300"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] In spite of all the gadgets and...
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Hospital Medicine Added Qualification for Physician Assistants
An examination for the new Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQ) in hospital medicine for physician assistants (PAs) will be offered for the...
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Hospitals’ Uncompensated Costs Estimated at $27.3 Billion in 2014
The estimated total amount of uncompensated costs incurred by hospitals in 2014 was $27.3 billion, which is $7.4 billion, or 21 percent, less than...
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Quality Data Dashboards Provide Performance Feedback to Physicians
A best-of-research plenary presentation at HM15 in National Harbor, Md., described a project to link physicians’ schedules to the electronic...
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Why Physicians Override Best Practice Alerts
Research published earlier this year in the Journal of Hospital Medicine finds that rationales offered by physicians for overriding interruptive,...
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Hospitals with Hotel-Like Amenities Don’t Improve Satisfaction Scores
Hospital design may not contribute to patients’ satisfaction with the care given by their hospital professionals, according to new research from...
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Hospice, Palliative Care Groups Release Quality Care Measures
[caption id="attachment_9635" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo credit: Manuel Noguera[/caption] The American Academy of Hospice and...