Background: Health systems nationwide are grappling with creating innovative strategies to enhance the patient experience. HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) is a national survey that provides a standardized approach to valuing the patients’ perspective. Unfortunately, as HCAHPS data is delayed and challenging to link to individual patient interactions, physicians infrequently receive [...]

Background: Interdisciplinary Rounds (IDRs) are essential for coordinating patient care on hospital units within the two acute care hospitals of St. Peter’s Health Partners located in Albany, New York (a 440-bed tertiary care hospital and a 160-bed hospital). However, with a length of stay O:E ratio as high as 1.34, we were concerned that not [...]

Background: Interprofessional Plan of Care Rounds (POCR) are an organized assembly of the following health care team members: physicians, nursing, case management, social work, physical therapy, pharmacy, and other ancillary services (Terra, 2015). The purpose of the rounds is for the group to concisely review each patient, his or her goals for the day, discharge [...]

Background: Effective doctor-patient communication is crucial for the exchange of important information. Improved communication can positively influence patient satisfaction, adherence and ultimately can lead to improvement in health outcomes.Patient satisfaction scores in the inpatient setting are elicited using the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey. Effective communication between a physician and [...]

Background: Throughput is a hospital priority. Decreasing length of stay is essential to decongesting overcrowded hospitals and maintaining financial viability. Purpose: The purpose of the project was to improve throughput through enhanced interdisciplinary communication. Description: We used the LEAN methodology of process improvement to perform a Value Stream Mapping exercise, which brought diverse clinical staff [...]

Background: While many physicians graduate from residency with competency to perform bedside procedures such as lumbar punctures (LPs) and paracentesis, the skillset often wanes after years in practice. Though a dedicated procedure service with full-time equivalent support may be a solution in settings where hospitalists need to perform numerous procedures per day, at our large [...]

Background: The COVID-19 omicron variant pandemic has created a community outbreak and the need for tele-consultation with hospital-at-home care has surged, especially in the rural area, like Taitung. There were some innovated telemedicine pilot programs developed in Taitung over the past 4 years in Taiwan. Purpose: This study examines the key success factors driving teleconsultation [...]

Background: The hospitalists affiliated with academic institutions typically have professional expectations to serve as clinician-educators. Despite these faculty expectations, few hospitalists have explicit training in how to teach effectively and lack formal experience in developing these skills. There is both a demand and need for sanctioned educational opportunities for academic hospitalists to refine their teaching [...]

Background: Hospital Medicine has been the fastest-growing field of physician practice over the past two decades in the United States, and hospitalists practice in a variety of institutional and geographical settings. The role of the “academic hospitalist” has arisen in response to the needs of academic medical centers and their associated medical schools and Internal [...]

Background: Many academic hospitalists begin their careers directly after residency and are expected to become teaching attendings without additional training or experience. Early attendings must quickly learn how to balance autonomy and supervision, advance patient care, and educate a wide spectrum of learners. Although tools such as faculty development workshops or peer observation programs are [...]