Materials and methods The incumbent arrangements were on Deene C Ward (DCW): 29
patients under the care of three consultants conducting twice weekly ward rounds not …

opened 1 year later, adding 830,000 square feet, 21 stories, 374 beds, and 30 operating
rooms to our institution and the expectation that we would provide worldclass patient care …

Clinic Handbook: Gastroenterology provides practical guidelines on the medical and
administrative issues associated with running a gastroenterology-based outpatient clinic …

Several developments in the 1990s led to dramatic changes in the delivery of inpatient care.
Decreasing reimbursement resulted in increasing cost pressures on physicians, hospitals …

Background When the senior author graduated from fellowship in 1983 (JIA),
gastroenterology practice model choices were limited to essentially 4: independent …

An inpatient ward has been converted, at low cost, to a gastroenterology day-case unit,
which includes a purpose-built endoscopy room and a day-case area. The presence of a …

From its informal beginnings a decade ago, a program for training young gastroenterologists
has gradually expanded into several “rings” of affiliated and allied facilities through which …

We recorded clinical information over a 12-month period on consecutive consultations to the
gastroenterology service of the Durham VA Medical Center. Of 902 consultations, 789 were …

Until recently, physicians were appointed to a consultant post in general internal medicine
(GIM) with an additional special interest. The special interest was left vague, often simply 'to …

Hospitals are now being reimbursed by a prospective Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG)
classification system. There have been no major changes in the Federal Medicare DRG …