Practice Management
Practice Management
Pediatric HM highlights from the 2020 State of Hospital Medicine Report
After COVID-19, hospital revenues took an even greater downturn, affecting many hospital-based pediatric programs.
News
COVID-19 drives physician burnout for some specialties
Quality
Finding meaning in ‘Lean’?
Physician well-being should be included among quality improvement metrics for health systems.
Quality
How can hospitalists change the status quo?
There is no hard and fast rule about the way health care should adopt Lean thinking.
Practice Management
Racism in medicine: Implicit and explicit
Health care systems need to move toward equity rather than focusing on equality.
News
Hospital volumes start to fall again, even as COVID-19 soars
There was a much bigger crash in admissions, observation visits, and ED visits last spring than in November.
Clinical
Contact tracing in hospitals falls off as COVID-19 cases rise
Ad hoc approaches to contact tracing are likely to be short-lived.
Practice Management
13 best practices to increase hospitalist billing efficiency
Although hospitalists do a tremendous amount of work, they do not always bill for what they are doing.
News
COVID-related harm to HCWs must be tracked more rigorously: NAS panel
Although the data are still limited, the prevalence of burnout and suicide points to a serious concern, according to the report.
Career
Bias against hiring hospitalists trained in family medicine still persists
“Truly, the best candidate for the position, regardless of background and training, is what you want."