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 [...]

Background: Deployment of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) consumes significant enterprise-wide resources. Hospitals may be reluctant to introduce further changes during the same year, including patient experience improvement initiatives. Deployment efforts may stretch clinical leaders who provide oversight on patient experience efforts. Lastly, EMR is noted to be a major source of provider burnout and deployment [...]

Case Presentation: Pt was a FT 2wk old boy. At his 1st clinic appointment, he was 9% below birthweight. Mom reported appropriate feeding volume but he was sleeping throughout the day and needed to be woken for feeds. He was stooling 1-2 times per day with 4-5 wet diapers and no vomiting or fevers. At [...]