Background: Nurse-physician teamwork is a critical determinant of outcomes among hospitalized patients. Although improvement interventions have been designed for specific settings (eg, intensive care units and operating rooms), less attention has been given to nurse-physician teamwork in hospital medicine. Therefore, our goal was to assess the quality and effectiveness of interventions for improving nurse-physician teamwork […]

Background: Hospitalizations are disruptive, stressful, and costly for patients and families. Readmissions are costly for payers. Readmissions within 30 days occur in 13% of pediatric hospitalizations; prior studies estimate 30-day unplanned readmission rates to children’s hospitals at 6.5%.  However, estimates of unplanned readmission are based on non-validated algorithms developed by expert opinion to exclude planned […]