Background: Effective quality‐improvement (QI) collaborations among physicians, nurses, and managers have been shown to improve health care outcomes. Thus, participation in QI activities is considered a core competency for practicing hospital medicine. Despite this, physician engagement in QI activities has been limited. One reason for limited participation by physicians may be that physicians may lack […]

Background: As the United States population ages the health care system is experiencing overall change and growth in the patient population as evidenced by the rising demand of psychiatric care in the emergency department. By the year 2029 “baby boomers” or older adults, those born between mid-1946 through mid-1964, will be 65 and older resulting […]