Article
SHM’s 2023 State of Hospital Medicine Report Includes New Data
August 10, 2023
SHM’s 2023 State of Hospital Medicine (SoHM) Report contains the first data on hospital medicine groups since before the COVID-19 pandemic started in early 2020. SHM paused the normal two-year...
Article
Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2022
July 5, 2023
In 2022, a New York Times headline declared, “Saving kids is bad business in America.”1 Pediatric hospitalists were faced with an unprecedented winter surge due to the “tripledemic” of...
Article
High-Value Care/Things We Do For No Reason
July 5, 2023
In this impactful session, Dr. Lee defined value as the sum of quality of care, equity, patient outcome, and experience divided by costs of care and nonfinancial risks and harms. High-value care...
Article
Strategies for Dysfunctional Teams and Groups
July 5, 2023
Drs. Russo and Boer began by outlining the differences between high-performing and dysfunctional teams. High-performing teams are not afraid of face-to-face communication, authentically give and...
Article
Standardizing the Recruitment Process for Hospitalist Programs
July 5, 2023
This workshop discussed ideas to standardize the recruitment process, ask more informative interview questions, and minimize unconscious bias to create a diverse hospitalist group. The audience was...
Article
Rounding Project Wins Shark Tank Competition
July 5, 2023
Dr. Franco A project intending to help optimize how rounding is performed in hospitals won this year’s Research Shark Tank competition at SHM Converge in March, coming after a compelling set of...
Article
The Great Debate: ED vs Direct Admission
July 5, 2023
Each year, two million children are admitted to the hospital. Drs. Leyenaar and McDaniel debated whether these patients should be admitted through the emergency department (ED) or directly. They...
Article
Evolution of IDTs
July 5, 2023
This informative session was geared towards team-building enthusiasts as well as those just starting to develop hospital-based teams. The speakers introduced the meeting with a case study on Amazing...
Article
Hospitalists Driving LOS Optimization
July 5, 2023
In our current post-COVID-19 world, few topics come up more frequently in hospitalist meetings than length of stay (LOS). The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted profit margins across the...
Article
The Holy Grail of Survey Design: Achieving a 90% Response Rate
July 5, 2023
In this talk, Ms. Keniston, director of data and analytics in the division of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colo., provided an overview of survey design. Dr. Michtalik,...