Background: Patient recruitment for randomized clinical trials is often challenging, especially when the alternatives being studied may require significant changes or have large consequences for the patient. We describe our experience recruiting patients for a clinical trial comparing the Comprehensive Care Program (CCP), a care delivery model in which physicians focus their practice on caring [...]

Background: Despite rapidly growing interest in hospital medicine (HM), no prior research has examined the attributes that may be most beneficial to applicants during the HM application, interview and hiring process. We aimed to define the specific qualities that HM interviewers seek in candidates, and to assess interviewer perceptions about important applicant behaviors, attributes and [...]

Background: Building a diverse hospitalist workforce is of paramount importance as a growing number of studies demonstrate the value of diverse teams on patient care (reference 1). A 2019 Association of American Medical Colleges report on race/ethnicity data of full-time academic medicine faculty showed that 3.6% self-identified as Black or African American, and 5.5% self-identified [...]

Background: Hospital-at-Home (HaH) is a novel care model providing inpatient care for patients in their home through a combination of home visits and virtual care. Advanced Care at Home (ACH), UNC Health’s HaH program, launched in 2021, has helped over 2,000 admissions to date. The majority of HaH care is provided under the terms of [...]