Mixed Topics
Career
Recertification: The FPHM option
Should you recertify with a focus in hospital medicine or maintain a traditional internal medicine certification?
Practice Management
Dealing with staffing shortfalls
The rapid growth of hospital medicine has made it difficult to hire qualified hospitalists fast enough.
Quality
Adjustment for characteristics not used by Medicare reduces hospital variations in readmission rates
Can differences in hospital readmission rates be explained by patient characteristics not accounted for by Medicare?
Quality
Physician burnout may be jeopardizing patient care
Is physician burnout associated with more patient safety issues, low professionalism, or poor patient satisfaction?
Practice Management
Quick Byte: Conversations about cost
Many patients would like to discuss health care costs with their providers.
Quality
Creating better performance incentives
There are better options than pay-for-performance programs.
Practice Management
A “Ray of light”
There is value in looking for inspiration in the patients you care for.
Practice Management
Are hospitalists being more highly valued?
Financial support from hospitals to hospital medicine groups continues to climb.
Quality
Bringing QI training to an IM residency program
Quality improvement is crucial in today’s health care environment.
From the Society
Focus on science, not format
JHM wants to eliminate unnecessary and burdensome steps in the manuscript submission process.