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Abstract Number: 18
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Dedicated hospitalists are associated with improvements in healthcare quality and patient outcomes, but are not feasible for small-volume critical access hospitals (CAHs). A telemedicine “virtual hospitalist” model may expand the capabilities of a CAH at a fraction of the cost of an on-site provider. Purpose: Our purpose was to provide hospitalist coverage to remote […]
Abstract Number: 18
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Comanagement is a structured collaboration between hospitalists and a surgical service to improve outcomes of surgical patients perioperatively. We identified the potential to improve patient safety and throughput metrics on the Surgical Oncology and Otolaryngology (ENT) services at our institution. We partnered with these two services to create a novel Surgical Oncology Comanagement Service. […]
Abstract Number: 18
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Over the past few decades, many institutions have elected to implement night float systems in place of traditional call systems for residents. With the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education enacting duty hour restrictions in 2003, these changes toward stricter work hour requirements and institution of night float systems have been found to have […]
Abstract Number: 19
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Recognizing the significant effect that social factors have on health outcomes, national stakeholders have developed policies requiring healthcare organizations to identify and address health-related social needs (HRSN). However, the effectiveness of HRSN screening strategies remains unclear. Notably, policymakers provide minimal guidance on how screening should be conducted and allow hospitals to use self-selected screening […]
Abstract Number: 19
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Patient-physician communication is essential to medical care. Simple physician behaviors, such as sitting at the bedside, may bolster patient-physician communication.1-3 Yet despite the potential benefit of sitting, prior work suggests that inpatient physicians do not sit frequently.1,4 Methods: Trained staff performed in-person surveys of patients admitted to seven general internal medicine teaching services from […]
Abstract Number: 20
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Consultative medicine is an important part of Internal Medicine (IM) resident education. According to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, residents are expected to “act in a consultative role to other physicians and health professionals.” However, individual programs each have the ability to integrate the consultative experience into training in their own unique […]
Abstract Number: 21
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Consultative medicine has been identified as a core part of internal medicine (IM) resident education by providing the opportunity for residents to care for the non-medical patient. In the early 1980s, two separate academic institutions detailed the initiation of their General Medicine Consultation service. They described who consulted them and the reason for consultation. […]
Abstract Number: 23
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) improves physicians’ clinical decision-making through refining the skills of asking a clinical question, searching for and appraising the literature and then properly applying it to patient care. While EBM has been implemented as an essential module across medical schools worldwide, most graduates are not well versed in the fundamentals of effectively […]
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 […]