Mixed Topics
Clinical
QI reduces daily labs and promotes sleep-friendly lab timing
Will a quality improvement project involving physician education and an EHR shortcut reduce the quantity and optimize the timing of daily routine...
Practice Management
Resident physician work-hour regulations associated with improved physician safety and health
Do consecutive work-hour restrictions for first-year resident physicians improve physician safety?
News
Major insurers running billions of dollars behind on payments to hospitals and doctors
Substantial payment delays can be seen on Anthem’s books. On June 30, 2019, before the pandemic, 43% of the insurer’s medical bills for that...
News
Two Colorado nurses admit to stealing drugs from hospital patients
One nurse gained access to rooms of patients who weren’t assigned to her and diverted drugs from their pain-on-demand devices.
News
MDs doing wrong-site surgery: Why is it still happening?
“When they make a wrong-site error, usually the first thing they say is, ‘I never thought this would happen to me.’ ”
Practice Management
Mean leadership
Leadership requires the investment of deliberate practice, financial acumen, negotiation skills, and increased vulnerability.
News
Cardiogenic shock teams again tied to lower mortality
New data suggest centers with a shock team had higher survival and lower resource use in the cardiac ICU.
News
New CMS rule challenges hospitals, but not vendors, to make EHRs safer
When hospitals and health care systems start to assess their systems, many will be surprised at what they are not doing or not doing right, one...
Clinical
Medical education must take broader view of disabilities
Strategies for disability education can help health care providers reduce disparities in care for the disabled.
News
New tool predicts pain relief after gallbladder surgery
“Until now, we did not know which patient with which symptoms would benefit most from this operation.”