Background: Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) is a morbid and potentially lethal complication. National policies related to CLABSI mandate public reporting of this adverse event, with hospitals receiving penalties based on their CLABSI rates. Contemporary data suggest that peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) placed outside critical care settings are a large contributor to hospital CLABSI […]

Background: Hospitals are nationally ranked on the basis of comparisons of quality of care, mortality, readmissions and health care associated infections.1 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) looks at these top 6 illnesses; stroke, pneumonia, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute myocardial infarction and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) to compare hospital’s specific […]

Background: Code status discussions and documentation are a key part of inpatient care for hospital medicine providers as they become more involved in caring for those with advanced illness. Hospitalists are challenged both with efficiently addressing a complicated subject due to time constraints and by a lack of established patient relationships. If it is not […]

Background: Clinical reasoning is a core component of medical training yet learners receive very little formative feedback on their clinical reasoning documentation. We hypothesize that this is related to the lack of a shared assessment rubric and faculty time constraints. Purpose: Here we describe the process of developing a machine learning algorithm for feedback on […]

Background: For academic hospital medicine groups to thrive and be partners with their hospital systems, physicians must document and bill appropriately as a means of demonstrating their clinical value. Yet, many major academic hospital medicine groups may be unaware or receive little training for this very important skill set. Based on data from the Society […]