Background: Understanding communication between providers and patients is key to providing patient-centered care. We sought to determine if patient’s perception of time spent by physician at bedside is associated with patient satisfaction with physician communication. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of patients admitted to the hospital medicine service. The survey included questions about patient’s [...]

Background: Prior to this project, inpatient Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) at UW Health lacked organizational data including volumes, patient experience, hospital acquired conditions, and operational efficiency metrics. In 2016, inpatient APPs collaborated with UW Health’s Analytics and Information Systems team to develop a method for inpatient APP attribution and identification of team-based, APP sensitive metrics [...]

Background: A somewhat under-discussed topic in EHR implementation is the safety and efficiency consequences of their lengthy build and implementation. After multiple years of stalled clinical innovation while IT staff dedicate their focus to EHR builds, hospital systems undergo an 8 – 16 hour downtime often followed by multiple planned and unplanned downtimes that can [...]

Background: As of 2017, 96% of non-federal acute care hospitals had an electronic health record (EHR). Hospitalists interact with the EHR for several hours each day. Many studies have suggested a direct correlation between physician burnout and frustrations with the EHR. Data has been published regarding physician time studies in the outpatient setting, but there [...]

Background: In March of 2016, the CDC released guidelines recommending shorter duration of opioid prescriptions. While these guidelines have the potential to influence hospitalist practice, it is not clear whether discharge prescribing patterns have changed for hospitalized patients. We perform an interrupted time series analysis to examine changes in discharge opioid prescribing from an inpatient [...]