Background: Our previous research has confirmed that bleeding from paracenteses is unrelated to coagulation parameters or the presence of blood‐thinning/antiplatelet medications. However, despite this and the routine use of ultrasound, we have consistently witnessed a postprocedure intra‐abdominal bleeding rate of 0.3% (unpublished internal quality data). Given our annual volume of 1200 paracenteses, this translates into […]

Background: In 2016, around 94% of healthcare facility managers used locum tenens physicians in the previous 12 months. One-quarter of them were locum hospitalists, making hospitalists as the second most common service in demand for locum physicians. There are no prospective studies comparing the care of locum to non-locum hospitalists. Methods: We conducted a classical […]