Quality
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.
Quality
Quality and safety of hospital care from the patient perspective
Can patient feedback support health services to measure and improve the quality and safety of patient care in the hospital?
Quality
Hospitalists target inpatient glycemic control
Hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients is an extraordinarily common and growing problem.
From the Society
SHM aids national infection prevention and control effort
SHM was a key partner in the STRIVE program that sought to enhance infection prevention and control efforts.
Practice Management
Documentation and billing: Tips for hospitalists
The goal is not to bill as much as possible but rather to document appropriately.
HM18
HM18: ‘Things we do for no reason’
Physicians continue to practice low value care because of practice habits and lack of cost transparency.