Search Tag: staffing shortages

Executive Health Management

2023 05 Oct

In a new study, researchers aimed to identify the factors leading primary care practice personnel to reject participation in quality improvement (QI) projects. The outcome of the study is to prompt reflection on the need for new strategies aimed at improving the attractiveness of QI projects.   What we currently know is that QI projects facilitate...Read more

ICU Management

2021 06 Apr

As hospitals continue to struggle with accelerating rates of coronavirus infections, hospitalisations, and deaths, the impact of the pandemic and the experiences of critical care physicians caring for the sickest COVID-19 patients should be examined. This is especially important because infection rates are increasing, and there are concerns about the...Read more

Executive Health Management

2017 12 Dec

"Locum tenens" physicians are those hired by hospitals to temporarily take the place of regular doctors who, for one reason or another, are unable to perform their duties. However, due to current physician staffing shortages and shifting employment patterns, demand for temporary or substitute docs has increased. But do these temps provide the same...Read more