Once again showing the value we bring to the table research suggests hospitalists decrease costs and improve quality.
This time it's the Mayo Clinic Proceedings that reports on these general trends. I don't need a study to tell me what an incredible asset hospitalists are to a hospital system. All you have to do is ask every player that comes in contact with a hospitalist, from nurses and techs to subspecialists to patients to administrators.
Oh yeah, and a well run hospitalist group definitely brings a hospitalist advantage to the hospital's bottom line. There is a reason why 2010 hospitalist compensation and salaries are thriving. Because hospitalist medicine model works.
No, offence, HH but who are you trying to convince?? Ok, you are all wonderful and cost saving and just super and everything, but..... who are you trying to convince? Those who read your blog are not going to be renewing your contract or setting your salary, so stop trying to convinve us, ok??
ReplyDeleteDear Happy,
ReplyDeleteDon't strain your arm patting yourself on the back.
After all, you and your kind represent another group of primary care physicians who have been shown time and again to be the best bargain in medicine. But the problem is no one else in this profession is interested in cost effective care. It is just so un- american.
Hiya Happy.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to access the full text and references of that systematic review, because I'd like to know if it included the big study by Bob Wachter and others presented at SHM 2005 which showed no improvement in any metric with the hospitalist model. The study was never published in a Medline indexed journal that I'm aware of (maybe a little publication bias within our ranks?)so it probably didn't make it into that review. That's a big problem, because the study wasone of the biggest, and most mthodologically sound ever done. Once I access the full text I may put up a post with my own take.