Background: In a technology-driven era, it is no surprise that the majority of learners prefer multimodal resources when learning new material. Patient discharge education is no exception to this, and several studies have demonstrated that providing digital discharge education (DDE) can help with patient comprehension, information retention, and patient self-efficacy with medication (1, 2, 3). [...]

Background: The Reducing REVISITS study enrolled and randomized diverse hospitals to identify scalable solutions for reducing preventable acute care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) utilizing Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM’s) award-winning mentored implementation model (MIM). MIM provides one year of expert advice and tools through virtual site visits and monthly meetings to [...]

Background: Hospital antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) play a critical role in minimizing unnecessary antibiotic use and combating antimicrobial resistance. Although various antibiotic stewardship interventions have been described, the feasibility and sustainability of these approaches remain uncertain. Furthermore, some interventions may be challenging for smaller hospitals to implement due to informatics resource limitations. Thus, we aimed [...]

Background: In our NIH funded multi-site cluster randomized clinical trial (RCT), we used implementation science methods to develop and implement quality improvement programs consisting of evidenced-based interventions to improve care transitions for patients hospitalized with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Since the hospitals were the ‘subject’ of study, typical patient-level RCT enrollment practices were not [...]

Background: Effective discharge communication is critical to ensuring safe patient transitions from the hospital and can improve outcomes. We have observed declining HCAHPS communication performance across our Section of Hospital Medicine and the transition out of the hospital was identified as a significant contributor. HCAHPS data was too slow to inform real-time improvement, so we [...]