Quality
Quality
New handoff tool can improve safety
It provided a means of enabling standardized transitions to the hospitalist inpatient service.
Quality
A novel approach to MIPS quality reporting for facility-based providers
Facility-based measurement represents a massive philosophical and practical shift in CMS measure reporting.
Practice Management
Benefiting from an egalitarian hospital culture
Change is possible, and it can improve patient outcomes.
Clinical
Increasing inpatient attending supervision does not decrease medical errors
What is the effect of increasing attending physician supervision on a resident inpatient team for both patient safety and education?
Clinical
How can I improve opioid safety at my hospital?
Quality improvement is essential.
Clinical
How to assess an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Can ASPs quantify their impact on antibiotic use without using an EMR or requiring IT support?
Quality
Bring Schwartz Rounds to your hospital
Compassionate care rounds are a national initiative to help foster empathy in the health care setting.
Quality
Giving hospitalists a larger clinical footprint
Hospitalists do not do SNF handoffs in the same manner as ICUs, but it’s time to change.
Quality
Patient-centered primed communication and goals-of-care discussions
Can primed communication increase the frequency of goals-of-care conversations in the outpatient setting?
Quality
Opiate-prescribing standard decreases opiate use in hospitalized patients
Can an opiate-prescribing standard that favors oral and subcutaneous over intravenous administration reduce exposure to intravenous opiates for...