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Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Hospitalization is costly, associated with the potential for adverse medical events and may have deleterious health effects. Hospitalist physicians are uniquely positioned to help patients avoid unnecessary hospitalizations. Our attending-only hospitalist practice in a tertiary academic center admits approximately 350 patients monthly, the majority of which are referred through the emergency department (ED). Our [...]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Hospitalization is costly, associated with the potential for adverse medical events and may have deleterious health effects. Hospitalist physicians are uniquely positioned to help patients avoid unnecessary hospitalizations. Our attending-only hospitalist practice in a tertiary academic center admits approximately 350 patients monthly, the majority of which are referred through the emergency department (ED). Our [...]
Abstract Number: 26
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Mentorship is key to successful, satisfying, and engaging academic careers. Models for mentorship and faculty development exist, but are often resource-intensive and focused on achieving success in research. Establishing mentorship in hospital medicine has been challenging given most programs have relatively few senior faculty, and most new hospitalists are recent residency graduates with little [...]
Abstract Number: 231
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Palliative care and geriatrics in hospital medicine have an established positive impact on patient experience and outcomes, however, these specialist care services remain underutilized. Recognizing an opportunity to improve the appropriateness of inpatient consultation on a large academic medical hospitalist service, we implemented a multi-disciplinary quality improvement intervention with the goal of increasing appropriate [...]
Abstract Number: 268
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: : Low patient satisfaction can result in financial loss for hospitals, and potentially for individual physicians or groups and patient satisfaction is known to be lower on academic services.1 Increasingly, Medicare funds will be withheld from hospitals for underperformance in patient satisfaction due to Value Based Purchasing (VBP). We identified a low performing, academic [...]
