Practice Management
Practice Management
The rapidly disappearing community pediatric inpatient unit
Across the U.S., pediatric inpatient units in community hospitals have failed to even flirt with breaking even.
Practice Management
Health care, technology, and the future
How do we improve the efficiencies of health service delivery while preserving the fundamental human qualities?
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Do free meals to physicians affect opioid prescribing?
SAN DIEGO – Physicians who received 1 free meal made about 150 opioid claims; those who received more than 10 made more than 700 claims.
Practice Management
Giving hospitalists a larger clinical footprint
Given current hospitalist work structures, who can possibly think about the “whole patient”?
Practice Management
The work schedule that prevents burnout
There is lots of value in thinking carefully about your group’s work schedule and making adjustments where needed.
Practice Management
A U.S. model for Italian hospitals?
Hospital-based physicians in Italy are looking with great interest at the American hospitalist model.
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Peer mentorship, groups help combat burnout in female physicians
NEW YORK – Female physicians are at higher risk of burnout in part because of lingering implicit and unconscious biases in society and the...
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Specialty practices hire more physician assistants and nurse practitioners
Overall, 28% of all specialty practices employed advanced practice clinicians in 2016 – a 22% increase from 2008.
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Prompt palliative care cut hospital costs in pooled study
Average cost savings per hospital admission were $3,237 overall and were even greater for cancer patients.
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CMS floats Medicare direct provider contracting
A new request for information seeks input on how such a system might work.