News
MDs doing wrong-site surgery: Why is it still happening?
September 30, 2021
“When they make a wrong-site error, usually the first thing they say is, ‘I never thought this would happen to me.’ ”
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Baylor gets restraining order against COVID-19 vaccine–skeptic doc
September 17, 2021
The war should be against SARS-CoV-2, but “because this virus has so many supporters, the war in essence becomes a war against ourselves, which is much harder.”
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How an ‘ad hoc’ hospitalist model evolved during India’s COVID surge
September 10, 2021
Indian physicians will not adopt a full-fledged hospitalist model unless the payer structure changes.
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Study calls higher surgery costs at NCI centers into question
September 1, 2021
When is the higher cost of cancer surgery at NCI centers worth it?
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Opinion
Hospitalists and medical malpractice
- Adam C. Schaffer, MD, MPH
August 4, 2021
Contrary to the trends for nearly all other physician specialties, the malpractice claims rates of hospitalists are not downtrending.
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Hotspotting does not reduce readmissions
- Sadie Trammell Velasquez, MD
July 1, 2021
Does the addition of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Provider’s care-transition program prevent hospital readmission in high utilizers of health care services?
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Professional versus facility billing: What hospitalists must know
June 15, 2021
Hospitalists don’t often realize how much impact they have on their hospital’s revenue cycle and quality.
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Child suicides drive Colorado hospital to declare state of emergency
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
June 4, 2021
"I've been in pediatrics for two decades and have never seen anything like this before," said Dr. David Brumbaugh.
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Hospital admissions of nursing home patients declined after ACA quality initiatives
May 28, 2021
Following the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), how have hospital transfer rates from nursing homes for patients with advanced medical conditions changed?
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Making sense of LAMA discharges
May 26, 2021
There is no evidence that insurance companies will not pay for LAMA discharges.