Background: Academic hospital medicine faculty often seek career paths in medical education, quality improvement, and/or research. However, few have formal training to develop scholarship in those domains. In recognition of the desire from faculty within our hospital medicine (HM) group for didactics and mentorship to promote scholarship, we created the Hospitalist Faculty Scholars Program (HFSP). [...]

Background: The 2016 State of Hospital Medicine report showed that the average hospitalist compensation model is composed of 80% base pay, 15% productivity, and 5% performance. Much variation exists by region in the make-up of the performance component with a rise in measures focused on patient satisfaction and readmission and significant differences in weight given [...]

Background: The healthcare workforce suffers from high levels of burnout, disengagement, and perceived isolation due to constant and unpredictable stresses. While multifactorial, the extent to which clinicians’ experience wellness and maintain resilience in a complex work environment is in part driven by connection to purpose and consciousness of elements of everyday activities that give joy. [...]

Background: The aging population along with increasing multi-morbidity and stricter regulations on house staff duty hours have played an integral role in fueling the drive for medical co-management of surgical patients. Parallel to these trends is an increasing demand for surgical services and risk for postoperative complications. While a positive impact on clinical outcomes has [...]

Background: TOUR™ is a multicenter study designed to characterize the real-world population characteristics and clinical outcomes associated with telavancin (TLV) use through retrospective medical chart review. Telavancin is a lipoglycopeptide antibacterial active against gram-positive pathogens, including methicillin-sensitive and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA and MRSA). In the US, TLV is approved for hospital-acquired (HABP) and ventilator-associated [...]

Background: In 2016, the United States resettled 96,900 refugees. In addition to its share of US resettled refugees, New Mexico was among the 10 states with the largest share of undocumented migrants (85,000) in 2014. As a humanitarian effort, refugee resettlement programs give priority to the most vulnerable cases, leading to a community in need [...]

Background: Tissue pathology plays an integral role in the diagnosis of various conditions, especially malignancy. Traditionally biopsy procedures, including core needle biopsy (CNB), have been performed by specialists under imaging guidance. They are traditionally done in special procedure rooms/suites–which come with an added cost of nursing staff, transportation and equipment. Meanwhile hospitalists are increasingly becoming [...]

Background: Small-bore pulmonary drains (PD) have been proven effective at replacing the previous large-bore chest tubes for resolution of pneumothorax (PTX), and management of complicated (CPEs) and recurrent pleural effusions (RPEs). The placement of these drains has traditionally been performed by Surgeons, Intensivists/Pulmonologists, and Interventional Radiologists. Our institution (large academic center) sought to determine whether [...]

Background: In most hospitals, physicians provide care to patients across multiple units while nurses are often unit-based, resulting in team dispersion, and potentially impairing teamwork. Geographically localized care teams may demonstrate improved communication between team members and with patients, potentially enhancing coordination of care. However, the impact of geographically localized teams on patient experience scores [...]

Background: Hospitalized patients placed on contact, droplet, or respiratory isolation due to a carrier state or infection with resistant or highly communicable organisms report higher rates of anxiety and loneliness and have fewer physician encounters, room entries, vital sign records, physician and nursing notes in the chart. For these reasons, it has been hypothesized that [...]