{"id":77,"date":"2008-09-29T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/pov\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-09-29T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T18:43:08","slug":"required-reading-the-value-of-id-specialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/required-reading-the-value-of-id-specialists\/2008\/09\/29\/","title":{"rendered":"Required Reading: The Value of ID Specialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the most recent issue of <em>Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/em>, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/full\/10.1086\/592067\" target=\"_blank\">comprehensive review of the value of an ID specialist<\/a> from the\u00a0perspective of non-patient care activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Covered in particular are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antibiotic stewardship<\/li>\n<li>Infection control<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring rates of nosocomial infections<\/li>\n<li>Managing health care worker &#8220;well-being and exposures&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also included are tables listing dozens of studies quantifying the value of these activities.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive paper, running 12 pages long and including over a hundred references.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What might be most useful, however, is a section entitled, &#8220;Putting the Data to Use Effectively in a Negotiation.&#8221;\u00a0 Here, in best Business School 101-ese, is a step-by-step approach to making the case for our value to hospitals or other health-care centers.\u00a0 Such negotiating skills are not taught in medical school, residency, or fellowship, and suspect that many of us could use this nice primer.<\/p>\n<p>So if you can&#8217;t define &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondintractability.org\/essay\/batna\/\" target=\"_blank\">BATNA<\/a>&#8221; (hint:\u00a0 it&#8217;s got nothing to do with rabies), I highly recommend this paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the most recent issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, there&#8217;s a comprehensive review of the value of an ID specialist from the\u00a0perspective of non-patient care activities.\u00a0 Covered in particular are: Antibiotic stewardship Infection control Monitoring rates of nosocomial infections Managing health care worker &#8220;well-being and exposures&#8221; Also included are tables listing dozens of studies quantifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[411,412],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","tag-health-care-financing","tag-health-care-policy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}