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Although bundled payments show promise as a method for containing healthcare costs while improving quality, some industry experts have expressed concern that this new payment model will hold back innovation efforts, Rebecca Paradis, a senior health policy associate at the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy institute), writes in Health […]
Read MoreAnesthesiologists can be counted on to properly staff and safely care for patients with Ebola, and they should be key players in planning for this possible, though unlikely, scenario at their hospitals, according to one anesthesiologist with experience with these challenges. With the latest transfer of an infected Dallas nurse, Emory University physicians and nurses […]
Read MoreBack in 1968, Fredrick Herzberg wrote a piece for the Harvard Business Review called ” One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?” in which he sought to disentangle factors that led to true job satisfaction from ones that led to dissatisfaction. Herzberg found that workers enjoyed achievement, recognition, the work itself, responsibility, promotion and […]
Read MoreI thought our readers would enjoy this since most of them practice in a hospital. Chief executive base pay continues to grow faster than other C-suite positions, according to the 2014 Hay Group Healthcare Compensation Study. Hay Group collected results from 128 integrated healthcare systems and subsystems and nearly 100 independent hospitals for the study. […]
Read MoreThis is for groups that also have employees other than their healthcare providers. Here are 10 things for employers to consider before terminating an employee. 1. Consider the reason: Position elimination versus performance issues As a fundamental proposition, the employer must be able to articulate the reason for terminating an employee. A good exercise for […]
Read MoreIn the fight to remain competitive in the new era of healthcare, hospitals are buying physician practices and hiring individual physicians as quickly as possible. But as more and more physicians become hospital employees, hospitals may not be taking a hard enough look at their new medical malpractice liabilities. These increased malpractice risks, combined with […]
Read MorePublished in J Pain. 2014 Sep 16. pii: S1526-5900(14)00911-0 Authors: Cajanus K et al Abstract Most clinically used opioids are mu-opioid receptor agonists. Therefore, genetic variation of the OPRM1 gene that encodes the mu-opioid receptor is of great interest for understanding pain management. A polymorphism 118A greater than G (rs1799971) within the OPRM1 gene results […]
Read MorePublished in Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2014 Sep Authors: Heinrich S et al PURPOSE: Perioperative regional anesthesia with consecutive reduction of intra- and postoperative systemic opioid requirements in order to improve oncological result after cancer surgery has only been addressed by a few reports. This hypothesis has never been proved in esophageal cancer with a long-term […]
Read MoreAuthors: Holst LB et al., N Engl J Med 2014 Oct 9; 371:1381 Transfusion thresholds of 7 g/dL or 9 g/dL yielded similar outcomes. Patients with septic shock are treated with early antibiotics, rapid fluid resuscitation, vasopressor/inotrope support, and blood transfusions. The Surviving Sepsis guidelines’ recommendation for a transfusion hemoglobin target of 7 to 9 […]
Read MoreThe answer: Gossip! Just because there is nothing you can do to completely eliminate it from your workplace doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do a thing about it. On the contrary, managers can and should take steps to eliminate harmful rumors and gossip from circulating in the workplace. Why? At best, it saps morale. At worst, […]
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