Background: Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color (BIPOC), other underrepresented minority (URM) individuals, and women have been historically underrepresented in scholarly writing and research. Junior faculty members may face similar experiential, psychological, and logistical barriers to scholarly participation. We sought interventions to improve hospitalists’ scholarly writing production, specifically those tailored for women, BIPOC, and other [...]

Background: As hospitalists often serve marginalized patients and have system-wide influence, hospital medicine is well positioned for promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ). While representational diversity may be tracked, inclusion can be harder to assess. As hospitalists engage in DEIJ efforts, it is important to understand what ‘success’ in inclusion looks like. We sought [...]

Background: As members of the patient experience committee, we aimed to identify areas of opportunity to improve the HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) scores. By analyzing the data through the utilization of our analytics tool provided by the patient and customer experience department, we noticed trends in the regional demographics in [...]