Background: Recruiting hospitalists is expensive, and turnover remains a challenge. Monitoring morale may help leaders maintain it within their groups, thereby improving retention. No published scale measures hospitalist morale, and based on our prior work, we know that morale is a multifaceted construct. Our study describes 2011 and 2012 results from the Hospitalist Morale Assessment […]

Background: With the advancement of technology and the provision of critical care, more critically ill patients are surviving the medical intensive care unit (ICU). Upon transfer to the general wards patients continue to face complex and ongoing medical issues that increase their risk of morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to determine patient characteristics as […]

Background: With the advancement of technology and medical care, more critically ill patients are surviving the medical intensive care unit (ICU) and are transferred to the general wards, where they spend the majority of their hospitalization. While there are guidelines that address common complications in the ICU (delirium and functional decline), once patients are transferred […]

Background: Many policy initiatives, such as Medicare's Value‐Based Purchasing program and the promotion of accountable care organizations, explicitly seek to realign hospitals' financial incentives from a focus on production to one on value (quality divided by cost). Although many hospitals and physicians are beginning to implement initiatives targeting this new goal, few of them have […]