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Sneak Peek: The Hospital Leader blog – Sept. 2017
To avoid potentially catastrophic situations, we should all use advanced care documentation as the start of a careful conversation about goals of...
Practice Management
New hospitalist unit has stellar patient satisfaction scores
Here’s how a hospitalist group in Ohio achieved top quartile performance on the Physician Communication domain of the HCAHPS survey.
Quality
QI enthusiast to QI leader: Jonathan Bae, MD, SFHM
Dr. Jonathan Bae’s desire to be a clinician was set at an early age, but his interest in quality improvement work came much later.
Quality
Hospital readmissions penalties now in 5th year
Critics have questioned whether hospitals should be held accountable for readmissions, whether 30 days is the correct time frame for that...
Quality
How hospitalists can help reduce readmissions
Multiple strategies exist that have either been proven to reduce hospital readmissions or show promise in doing so.
Quality
Hospital value-based purchasing is largely ineffective
Complicated pay-for-performance programs divert limited available resources away from meaningful improvement activities in order to comply with...
Quality
Sneak Peek: The Hospital Leader blog - Aug. 2017 “A Conversation with Dr. Eric Howell”
Leadership is an integral part of quality improvement work as it’s hard to get people to change if you can’t lead them through that change.
Quality
Sneak Peek: Journal of Hospital Medicine – August 2017
Read the latest research from the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the premier publication for dissemination of research and education for the...
Quality
Standardized infection ratio for CLABSI almost halved since 2009
Other hospital-related infections can’t match drop in SIR for central line–associated bloodstream infections.
Quality
QI enthusiast to QI leader: Luci Leykum, MD
Dr. Luci Leykum of the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, sees the complementary sides of quality improvement and research....