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Physician latitude, practical application key to consults
Physician latitude, practical application key to consults
Since the original ACGME duty-hours cutback in 2002, most teaching hospitals across the country have developed or expanded hospitalist-staffed,...
With Medicare preparing to curtail reimbursement for 30-day readmissions, hospitalists are on the frontlines of safe and effective transitions of...
It’s one thing to identify the factors associated with higher risk of readmission, and quite another to actively manage those patients
Robert A. Kowatch, MD, PhD
Concerns over being too aggressive remain theoretical. A far greater problem is that we are still not successfully treating hypertension to even a...
When the patient is a "very important person," the health care team should resist pressure to bend the rules.