December 12, 2017 |  0
Do locums hospitalists outperform…or even make the cut? A new investigation tackles the question, and I will get right to it. In a nutshell, locums docs provided a similar level of care as staff doctors according to a JAMA study published last week. Researchers analyzed 1.8 million Medicare patients hospitalized between 2009 and 2014 who were treated by […]
December 8, 2017 |  0
Wait a minute. Isn’t there an ongoing national shortage of hospitalists? Don’t most hospital medicine groups have trouble recruiting enough providers? You wouldn’t think hospitalists would be at much risk for being laid off. But believe it or not, it does happen. Management companies lose contracts. Hospitals get acquired or lose a big book of […]
December 6, 2017 |  1
Long continues the debate of what impact hospitalists have on inpatient outcomes. This issue has been playing out in the medical literature for 20 years, since the coining of the term in 1997. In the most recent iteration of the debate, a study was recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled “Comparison of Hospital Resource […]