Background: Background: Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are being increasingly utilized in hospital medicine groups. However, there is significant variation in how APPs are trained and utilized, resulting in high turnover rates, decreased provider satisfaction, and resistance to adopting a physician-APP practice model. Much of the literature around APP utilization is comparative in nature, describing APP [...]

Background: Patients with advanced cancer have high readmission rates, up to 27% in some studies, and represent unique challenges related to transitions of care, complex disease management, and care coordination. Recent efforts have focused on better identification of potentially avoidable readmissions (PARs). One study found that primary reasons for PARs in cancer patients included pre-mature [...]