Background: Nationwide, hospitals are experiencing high patient volumes, attributed to medical complexity, hospital length of stay, and hospital readmissions, among other factors. In this context, hospitalists’ roles have been expanding to optimize care during and following hospitalization. Post-discharge care is typically managed by primary care providers, and there is sparse information on programs that leverage [...]

Background: Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is a common and clinically important hospital-associated infection throughout the world. A few data from Japan exist regarding the prevalence and appropriateness of urinary catheters in hospitalized patients but no interventions have been proven to decrease unnecessary urinary catheter use in Japan. Our aim of this study is to [...]

Background: In November 2020, CMS issued the Acute Hospital Care in the Home waiver which allows hospitals to care for appropriate Medicare inpatients in a patient’s home. UNC Health launched its home hospital program Advanced Care at Home in August 2021. Hospitals issued the CMS waiver are required to subject patients to both clinical and [...]

Background: While sleep is critical for health and healing, the hospital setting is not conducive to sleep and few efforts have been made to improve the sleeping environment. To date, there have been no efforts to describe the current practices to improve the sleep of hospitalized patients at highly-ranked hospitals. Methods: A multicenter mixed-methods study [...]