Quality
Career
Physician learning must evolve as industry transforms
Standardized patient encounter training is a live simulation in a clinical setting with trained actors.
Quality
Readmitted patients less likely to be “very satisfied” with index admission
Clinical question: Are patient perceptions of care during index hospitalization associated with likelihood of 30-day readmission...
Quality
Inpatient care by PCPs associated with lower mortality than care by hospitalists
Clinical question: Are there differences in mortality and health care resource utilization in patients treated by hospitalists,...
From the Society
Launching into the future
Dr. Nasim Afsar became the new president of the Society of Hospital Medicine in April 2018.
HM18
Building a career in quality improvement
The session will provide some boots-on-the-ground insight from clinicians at various stages in this space.
Quality
Admitting medicine patients to off-service, nonmedicine units linked with increased in-hospital mortality
Do medicine patients admitted to off-service inpatient units during times of hospital saturation have worse quality of care and outcomes?
Opinion
Engaging skeptical parents
With skeptical parents, resist the urge to tell, and listen instead.
Quality
Hospital boards can promote quality improvement
Study highlights the importance of board-level clinical leaders in hospitals.
Quality
Making structural improvements in health care
The relatively new field of improvement science provides a framework for research focused on health care improvement.
Quality
New tool improves hand-off communications
One of the riskiest transitions that patients go through is when they change levels of care.