Background: Stigmatizing language in clinical notes can negatively impact physician attitudes, propagate bias, affect prescribing behaviors, and exacerbate healthcare disparities, yet remains prevalent even in the Open Notes era. Prior analyses of stigmatizing terms in clinical notes are limited by the lack of context in which terms are used and multiple meanings of certain words [...]

Background: A problem list serves as a central place for hospital-based clinicians to obtain a comprehensive and concise view of the patient’s active medical conditions. Use of the hospital problem list has many potential benefits: it provides a mental model of patient’s health status; streamlines the documentation process; makes chart review more efficient; facilitates communication [...]

Background: The Vizient Quality and Accountability scorecard is a tool that measures academic medical centers (AMCs) clinical performance, focusing on quality and safety while targeting specific opportunities for improvement. The Vizient quality domains include Mortality, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Equity, Patient Experience, and Patient safety. In an academic setting, the frontline healthcare providers are resident physicians. As [...]