A new doctor in the house: ethical issues in hospitalist systems
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The hospitalist model of inpatient medical care raises compelling ethical challenges for practicing physicians. Hospitalists are physicians who specialize in caring for patients in the hospital. Under this model, responsibility for care is transferred from the primary care physician to the hospitalist when a patient is hospitalized. Hospitalists do not typically have a close relationship with the patient, and may feel different obligations to their patients in matters of confidentiality and resuscitative care, compared to the patient's primary physician.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1999
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A framework for health care organizations to develop and evaluate a safety scorecard
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The need to design a framework, which would help health care organizations to evaluate patient safety scorecard in a more effective and efficient way, is reviewed.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2007
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