Over the past few decades, understanding of the importance of the emotional, physical, and overall wellness of provider has significantly increased. The impetus for this new focus on wellness is the realization that providers must first be able to care for themselves before they can care for...
Some health systems are offering virtual screening for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.Benefits of telemedicine screening for COVID-19 include convenience for patients and safely assessing patients in their home.
It is useful to recall that there is no prescribed format for creating medical staff bylaws and associated documents. Laws, regulations, and accreditation standards require medical staffs to address some issues in the bylaws, but how these issues are organized and addressed is up to each medical...
Yale New Haven Hospital's Late Career Practitioner Policy, which features an assessment of whether clinicians 70 and older are fit to practice medicine independently, has been challenged in federal court.
Like the general population, the proportion of the country's physician workforce...
Consider alarm fatigue. Providers are supposed to respond with the same alacrity to each of the hundreds of pings, alerts, or notifications they get every day. But these systems are often so excessive and poorly calibrated that staff become numb to them. Then, when an important alert is...