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Abstract Number: 8
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Since 2010, 130 rural hospitals have closed, leaving only 2,250 rural hospitals remaining in the United States. Of the remaining facilities, outmigration and/or the bypassing of the local hospitals to a larger facility remains problematic and impacts a community’s access to healthcare while affecting the long-term business viability of the city. In December of […]
Abstract Number: 10
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: ED visits increased to 145.59 million in 2016 (CDC 2019), resulting in an increase in hospital admissions. Chen et al. showed a correlation between the overall ED census and likelihood of admission; while, Velasquez et al. found up to 28% of hospitalists reported having admitted patients when no admission criteria were met. They described […]
Abstract Number: 15
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Patient evaluation of satisfaction with their physician has been utilized for several years and is now being included as a parameter utilized to calculate reimbursement. Despite the routine use of these evaluations by most hospitals and agencies, little research has been done to evaluate the metrics of patient evaluations. We sought to assess whether […]
Abstract Number: 21
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Communication between patients, nurses and physicians is vital to patient care. Prior studies have shown that a substantial number of hospitalized patients do not understand their care plan and that physician-nurse co-location or time spent communicating have little impact on physician-nurse concordance of plan of care. To our knowledge, there have been no prior […]
Abstract Number: 21
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is a goal-directed, bedside ultrasound examination performed by a healthcare provider to answer a specific diagnostic question or guide performance of an invasive procedure at the bedside. More hospitalists have begun to use POCUS, but little is known about current POCUS usage by hospitalists. We conducted a national survey […]
Abstract Number: 23
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program requirements for family medicine permit wide variability in adult inpatient medicine curricula. Family physicians compose a significant percentage of the hospitalist workforce, and the American Board of Family Medicine co-sponsors the Recognition of Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine. Previously published survey data describe certain residency characteristics […]
Abstract Number: 24
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Half of US hospitalists have contracts with pay-for-performance incentives based on quality outcomes such as length of stay (LOS) and readmission according to the 2023 State of Hospital Medicine Report. Traditionally, these measures have been linked to the discharging provider. However, as the length of a patient’s stay increases, the influence of the discharging […]
Abstract Number: 25
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Hospital capacity constraints remain an immense concern throughout the US and has been recognized as a national crisis for greater than a decade. ER overcrowding is of particular concern due to its downstream effects. It occurs when admitted patients are boarded in the emergency room for greater than 2 hours, while inpatient beds become […]
Abstract Number: 28
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: This is an exciting time for Telemedicine with new programs being implemented across the continuum of care including acute care, post-acute care, and in home settings. Proving the value of telemedicine programs when no access to providers exist is relatively straightforward but proving value of programs where implemented to augment existing care by the […]
Abstract Number: 28
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Interest in hospital medicine is rapidly growing, with a more than 50% growth rate of hospitalists between 2012 and 2019. Despite this large increase in practicing hospitalists, few formal residency resources exist to help internal medicine residents navigate the job application process and support their early hospitalist careers. While most residents will successfully seek […]