Background: Effective provider communication improves patients’ satisfaction, engagement, and health outcomes. Sitting at the bedside may improve communication; however, many providers do not regularly sit during inpatient encounters. We conducted a controlled pre-post evaluation of adding wall-mounted folding chairs inside the entrance of patient rooms, coupled with education, to increase sitting at the bedside by [...]

Background: An increasing amount of literature demonstrates the detrimental impact of discrimination and microaggressions at personal and institutional levels in the healthcare workplace (1-5). Confronting these displays of bias involves a multifaceted approach across professional disciplines and hierarchies. Residency is a time when physicians experience and learn to navigate bias (6). To address this, we [...]

Background: Effective feedback is essential for learners to develop skills needed to provide quality patient care and to work productively on teams. Hospitalists supervising students and residents are an important source of feedback, yet must balance teaching with the demands of direct patient care and other non-clinical obligations. 84% of 812 hospitalists in a national [...]

Background: Medication reconciliation (MR) is foundational to patient safety during and after a hospital admission. Although many electronic health records (EHRs) have a dedicated space for documenting home medications on admission, use of such EHR sections remains variable. Providers may opt to record the MR only in the admission H&P, which is not easily updated [...]