Background: Bedside rounding (BR) on inpatients has decreased over time. BR has many potential benefits that include increased shared medical decision making and a better understanding of the patient’s medical problems as well as plan of care. Additionally, BR can contribute to the patient’s sense of autonomy, inclusion in care and improved patient satisfaction. We […]

Background: Acute pancreatitis as a complication of vaccinations has been described for measles, mumps, rubella and others but none has been described for the inactivated influenza vaccine. We present a case of recurrent episodes of acute pancreatitis following influenza vaccinations, seven years apart. Methods: An otherwise healthy 84‐year old female had gone to her primary […]

Background: Academic hospital medicine groups frequently work in clinical care, quality improvement (QI), and medical education, but may not emphasize or have the training to conduct traditional clinical research. However, dissemination of scholarly work is important in academic medicine. We evaluated the effect of a researcher‐led works‐in‐progress (WIP) seminar series on research activities within a […]

Background: Avoiding missed opportunities to provide guideline recommended care through hospital‐based self‐management education is becoming increasingly common. To avoid preventable re‐hospitalizations it is important to know if and when post‐hospital discharge educational reinforcement is needed. However, the durability of hospital‐based education is unknown. The objective of this two‐center randomized clinical trial was to test the […]

Background: Residency training is grounded in experiential learning, or having residents assume care for a set of patients. Restricted residency duty hours have reportedly led to inpatient attendings playing a larger role in direct patient care. With these changes, it is currently unknown whom patients perceive as the most involved in their hospital care. Methods: […]

Background: Undergraduate medical education is a unique experience with significant time commitment, multiple stressors, and challenges with long lasting personal and professional impact. It has been shown that medical students are vulnerable to certain poor health behaviors, while also facing increased psychological stress, symptoms of depression, and related health complications. There is a paucity of […]

Background: The number of hospitalists in the US grew from 1000 in 1996 to 30,000 in 2010. In 2013, 70% of hospitals with over 200 beds are served by hospitalists. Driving forces behind hospital medicine’s increasing popularity remain uncertain, opening unique prospects for collaborative research at the intersection of geriatrics and hospital medicine. This study […]

Background: Giving feedback to learners is an essential tool in medical education. Despite feedback seeming so ubiquitous in the teaching environment, formal instruction on how to give relevant and timely feedback seems to be lacking. Without instruction on effective feedback, faculty and students might be uncomfortable and feel unprepared to provide feedback. Consequently, the feedback […]

Background: Research into post discharge risk has emphasized medical comorbidity with less consideration of patient functional status and social support. The Patient‐Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) is an inventory of NIH‐funded, publicly available measurements of function. Using PROMIS instruments we surveyed elders at hospital discharge and afterward to characterize physical, cognitive, social and emotional […]

Background: Advanced age is one of the predictors of the development of neutropenic fever in oncology patients. We hypothesize that older cancer patients with age ≥65 years are more likely to have bacteremia during neutropenic episode. Methods: We retrospectively extracted medical records of hospitalized patients between July 2005 and June 2012 with a diagnosis of […]