Quality
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.
Quality
Analytics, board support are quality improvement keys
Knowing when your interventions are having an effect is a skill essential to QI success.
Quality
Measuring high-value care practices
There are few instruments designed to measure the success of high-value care practices.
Clinical
Caring for transgender inpatients
Hospitalists will increasingly find themselves caring for patients who openly claim a gender identity outside the traditional gender categories....