Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a promising new tool to monitor patients who have historically required observation visits in a hospital, or would have remained hospitalized longer if initiated at hospital discharge, and was widely used in the COVID-19 pandemic. We report the outcomes of hospital admission and urgent/emergent care service utilization in a [...]

Background: Hospital readmissions are frequent and can represent low-quality, high-cost care. Timely post-hospital follow-up has been described as an important element of high-quality transitions of care and readmissions prevention (1-3), yet exactly what type of follow-up is most successful is unclear. We sought to understand the relationship between timing, hospital follow-up visit provider specialty and [...]

Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a promising new tool to monitor patients who have historically required observation visits in a hospital, or would have remained hospitalized longer if initiated at hospital discharge, and was widely used in the COVID-19 pandemic. We report the outcomes of hospital admission and urgent/emergent care service utilization in a [...]

Background: Hospital readmissions are frequent and can represent low-quality, high-cost care. Timely post-hospital follow-up has been described as an important element of high-quality transitions of care and readmissions prevention (1-3), yet exactly what type of follow-up is most successful is unclear. We sought to understand the relationship between timing, hospital follow-up visit provider specialty and [...]

Background: Half of US hospitalists have contracts with pay-for-performance incentives based on quality outcomes such as length of stay (LOS) and readmission according to the 2023 State of Hospital Medicine Report. Traditionally, these measures have been linked to the discharging provider. However, as the length of a patient’s stay increases, the influence of the discharging [...]

Background: Older adults presenting with trauma have worse outcomes than younger adults with similar injury severity. In 2013, the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program published guidelines that recommended geriatrics consultation (GC) for high-risk older adults. Many trauma centers implemented GC in congruence with these guidelines, but the impact on patient outcomes is [...]

Background: Sepsis affects over 19 million patients worldwide annually. While there was a reduction in in-hospital mortality for sepsis over the past two decades, the readmission rate among its survivors has increased. Sepsis is a leading cause of 30-day hospital readmission in the United States at 21.4%, compared to all-cause readmissions of 17%, and imposes [...]

Background: Previous research has established that treating COVID-19 hospitalized patients with remdesivir (RDV) was associated with significantly lower hospital readmission rates. We extend prior research with an additional year of more recent data by examining the association between RDV use and 30-day readmission rates due to any cause as well as due to COVID-19 among [...]

Background: Inpatient admissions for Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) represent a substantial economic burden within the US healthcare system with patients experiencing high rates of 30-day readmission and mortality. To more efficiently and effectively serve complex cardiovascular (CV) patients at a major cardiac care center, Intermountain Health created a dedicated CV hospitalist service which has expanded [...]

Background: In 2020, COVID-19 emerged as the third leading cause of mortality in the United States with high death rates in urban areas at the beginning of the pandemic. By December 2020, the COVID-19 mortality pattern changed with higher mortality in rural areas.1,2 Epidemiological studies showed that rural populations were at a higher risk of [...]