Background: Delirium, an acute cognitive disturbance prevalent in up to 58% of older hospitalized adults, poses serious health risks, longer hospital stays, and increased mortality (1). Identifying and screening for delirium is hindered by barriers such as limited awareness, inadequate education, and lack of prioritization among healthcare providers. This project aimed to gauge opportunities to [...]

Background: There is growing interest in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) predictive models in hospital medicine. However, real-world implementation and evaluation of AI models lags the development of such models, with many such models being developed but never used in live practice. (1) Therefore, relatively less is known about the performance of these models [...]

Background: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are limited, so effective triage is important for resource utilization. However, inappropriate triage of critically ill patients to non ICU settings can lead to poor patient outcomes, as early unexpected ICU transfers are associated with increased mortality. Purpose: We sought to describe the effectiveness of Hospital Medicine (HM), Emergency [...]

Background: To mitigate COVID-19 related hospital crowding, our hospital internal medicine (HIM) department collaborated with our emergency department (ED) to launch a service in which an HIM team was placed in the ED to assist with triage. The goal was to expedite patients with a clear need for admission, while diverting others who could be [...]

Background: In 2017, Emory University Hospital Midtown (EUHM) instituted fast track dialysis (FTD) which identified low risk patients in the emergency department (ED) in need of hemodialysis (HD) and provided it efficiently. The FTD development team consisted of hospital medicine, emergency medicine, nephrology, dialysis unit nursing, and ED nursing. This program showed a reduction in [...]