Meeting
Abstract Number: 268
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Opening new residency programs in community hospitals is one strategy to address physician shortage. Previous reports showed better outcomes in university based hospitals. However, less is known about teaching community hospitals. Disrupting well- established workflows in community hospitals is feared to cause an increased cost and possibly a slide in quality of care. Our […]
Abstract Number: 277
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: As healthcare costs continue to burgeon and grow at an unprecedented rate, cost utilization is an increasingly important field of research. In-hospital costs are one of the most expensive contributors to healthcare costs in the United States. Very little research has been done in the United States regarding length of stay outliers and their […]