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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. The result?

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Effect of Decision Support on Dialysis Choice and Outcomes

Physician's Weekly

Logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards models identified predictors associated with these outcomes. The results showed that 68% of patients selected home-based dialysis and 32% opted for center-based dialysis after the SDM intervention. The exposure variable was a SDM intervention for dialysis modality.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor. Alex: That’s great.