Background: The hospitalist role is gaining increasing presence for inpatient care, with the opportunity to care for a variety of higher acuity patient across a breadth of specialties in the hospital setting. Further examination into the types and amount of MS-DRG categories seen by hospitalists and their ordering volumes can provide a better picture of [...]

Background: Patients’ confidence managing their health after discharge is essential to effective transitions of care. After Visit Summaries (AVSs) are a standard way of communicating discharge instructions. Past studies proposed solutions to improve discharge instructions and information retention, including simplified information pages, structured discharge letters, and graphic-based discharge information (DeSai et al., Lin et al., [...]