Unit-based assignments: Pros and cons
A relatively recent practice catching on in many different hospitalist groups is geographic cohorting, or unit-based assignments.
December 6, 2018
Quality
November 14, 2018
Patient-centered primed communication and goals-of-care discussions
November 14, 2018
November 13, 2018
Opiate-prescribing standard decreases opiate use in hospitalized patients
November 13, 2018
Pediatrics
November 17, 2018
Consider omitting CSF testing in older, low-risk febrile infants
November 17, 2018
November 14, 2018
New pediatric therapies show promise for influenza, multidrug-resistant pathogens
November 14, 2018
November 13, 2018
Children are vulnerable to diseases emerging because of climate change
November 13, 2018
Public Policy
November 15, 2018
CMS modifies the inpatient admission order requirement, or did it?
November 15, 2018
Practice Management
October 29, 2018
Healthy, ethical environments can alleviate ‘moral distress’ in clinicians
October 29, 2018
Clinical
December 7, 2018
Acute stroke thrombolysis worked safely despite GI bleed or malignancy
December 7, 2018
Cardiology
December 4, 2018
EARLY: Angiography within 2 hours of acute non-ST event cut recurrent ischemic events
December 4, 2018
November 19, 2018
Invasive strategy increased bleeding risk in frail older AMI patients
November 19, 2018
November 15, 2018
Resuming DOAC therapy in AF patients after gastrointestinal bleed
November 15, 2018
November 12, 2018
PIONEER-HF called “practice changing” for acute decompensated heart failure
November 12, 2018