Nighttime intensivist staffing had no significant benefits on ICU or hospital length of stay, according to a study recently published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. In a yearlong study, researchers surveyed more than 1,500 patients admitted...
Clinical integration, the advancement of physician-hospital collaboration to increase quality and decrease costs, is harder than it looks. The impending pay for value world we are rapidly entering requires that physicians lead clinical integration to achieve...
Clinical integration, the advancement of physician-hospital collaboration to increase quality and decrease costs, is harder than it looks. The impending pay for value world we are rapidly entering requires that physicians lead clinical integration to achieve success. Do your physician leaders...
What happens when you are creating your ED call lists and one specialty requests to be able to pick their own physician in another specialty? When Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., faced this exact request, it made a good-faith effort to meet it.
