Quality
Practice Management
Phoenix Children’s Hospital integrates care from ground up
More than 1,000 physicians in the Phoenix metro area are part of a hospital network with incentive-laden contracts for meeting care and wellness...
Quality
Choosing location after discharge wisely
With a principal focus on hospital length of stay, we have prioritized when patients are ready to leave over where they go after they leave.
Quality
QI enthusiast to QI leader: Sheri Chernetsky Tejedor, MD
Trained as an engineer, Dr. Sheri Tejedor says knowledge of informatics and the business of medicine is key to institutional quality improvement...
From the Society
Project improves noninvasive IUC alternatives
A UC San Diego medical student’s quality improvement project proves successful.
Quality
Text paging practices need improvement, standardization
Text paging practices need improvement, standardization Clinical question: What is the content and structure of patient care–related text paging...
Quality
Adopting the patient’s perspective
Taking the time to speak with patients not only demonstrates respect but also reduces their worries and discomfort.
Quality
Quick Byte: Take a seat
Sitting down at a patient’s bedside improves some aspects of patients’ and families’ experience of their hospital care.
Quality
Using “design thinking” to improve health care
With design thinking, the innovations come from those who actually work in health care spaces.
Practice Management
New curriculum teaches value-based health care
It is critical that hospitalists understand and embrace the concepts of value, and are able to deliver upon these ideals.
Quality
Using post-acute and long-term care quality report cards
Hospitalists and discharge planners should engage and assist patients, families, and caregivers in the decision making process.