Featured blog post: Spotlight from AHRQ--Q&A with John Maa about surgical hospitalists
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, October 12, 2010
The Medical Staff Leader Blog caught up with John Maa, MD, FACS, surgical hospitalist and assistant professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and author of The Surgical Hospitalist Program Management Guide: Tools and Strategies for Executives and Physicians, at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2010 Annual Conference in Bethesda, MD. We asked him about what recent updates he has seen to the surgical hospitalist movement. Hear what he has to say about how it parallels with the medical hospitalist movement and what medical staff leaders can do to avoid pitfalls.
Q: Your book, The Surgical Hospitalist Program Management Guide: Tools and Strategies for Executives and Physicians published in April 2009, in which you estimated there were then 30 surgical hospitalist programs in existence in the U.S. How has that number changed?
A: I’d estimate there are approximately 300 programs in America, as of September 2010. There appears, as with the medical hospitalist movement, to be a logarithm slope portion of the curve of expansion. I think we’re on that portion of the curve.
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