Quality
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...
Quality
Focus on patient experience to cut readmission rates
Key issues might not be captured in standard postdischarge surveys.
Quality
Launching a surgical comanagement project
Collaborating in surgical comanagement improves the satisfaction of the hospitalists and surgeons involved.
Clinical
Paradigm shifts in palliative care
Hospitalists must be more keenly tuned in than ever to patients' precise needs.
Quality
Hospital-level care coordination strategies and the patient experience
Does patient experience correlate with specific hospital care coordination and transition strategies, and if so, which strategies most strongly...
Quality
Does nurse-physician rounding matter?
Improved communication by timely nurse-physician rounding can lead to better outcomes for patients.