Are geographic rounds right for your hospitalist program?
Medical Staff Briefing, July 1, 2010
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Hospitalist program leaders and medical directors may wonder whether geographic (aka unit-based) rounding will benefit their programs but hesitate to disrupt those programs in an effort to find out.
Geographic rounding involves assigning hospitalists to a single unit within the hospital. Rather than tending to patients in multiple units on multiple floors, hospitalists stay in a single area of the hospital and focus their attention on caring for a specific group of patients. It sounds simple, but hospitalist leaders must consider the pros and cons before taking the leap.
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