Background: Electronic health records (EHR) capture clinical information that may be useful in predicting risk of hospital readmission. This study used EHR data to examine the associations between inpatient medication exposure and risk of hospital readmissions. Methods: The study population consisted of all patients hospitalized and discharged alive from Duke University Hospital between 2007 and […]

Background: Dyad round means when nurses and doctors do patient round together. When the concept of hospitalist came to health care system, doctors became available 24 hours in the care of patients. Nurses and doctors started doing their patient-rounds individually1 and communicate via electronic medical record (EMR) or other electronic methods.On an average, a patient […]