Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a promising new tool to monitor patients who have historically required observation visits in a hospital, or would have remained hospitalized longer if initiated at hospital discharge, and was widely used in the COVID-19 pandemic. We report the outcomes of hospital admission and urgent/emergent care service utilization in a [...]

Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a promising new tool to monitor patients who have historically required observation visits in a hospital, or would have remained hospitalized longer if initiated at hospital discharge, and was widely used in the COVID-19 pandemic. We report the outcomes of hospital admission and urgent/emergent care service utilization in a [...]

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 [...]

Background: Older adults presenting with trauma have worse outcomes than younger adults with similar injury severity. In 2013, the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program published guidelines that recommended geriatrics consultation (GC) for high-risk older adults. Many trauma centers implemented GC in congruence with these guidelines, but the impact on patient outcomes is [...]

Background: Sepsis affects over 19 million patients worldwide annually. While there was a reduction in in-hospital mortality for sepsis over the past two decades, the readmission rate among its survivors has increased. Sepsis is a leading cause of 30-day hospital readmission in the United States at 21.4%, compared to all-cause readmissions of 17%, and imposes [...]

Background: Previous research has established that treating COVID-19 hospitalized patients with remdesivir (RDV) was associated with significantly lower hospital readmission rates. We extend prior research with an additional year of more recent data by examining the association between RDV use and 30-day readmission rates due to any cause as well as due to COVID-19 among [...]

Background: Inpatient admissions for Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) represent a substantial economic burden within the US healthcare system with patients experiencing high rates of 30-day readmission and mortality. To more efficiently and effectively serve complex cardiovascular (CV) patients at a major cardiac care center, Intermountain Health created a dedicated CV hospitalist service which has expanded [...]

Background: In 2020, COVID-19 emerged as the third leading cause of mortality in the United States with high death rates in urban areas at the beginning of the pandemic. By December 2020, the COVID-19 mortality pattern changed with higher mortality in rural areas.1,2 Epidemiological studies showed that rural populations were at a higher risk of [...]

Background: Healthcare system high utilizers create a financial burden raising healthcare costs and quality improvement measures should be assessed to create a positive change. We aimed to characterize the high-utilizer patients in our system to create tailored interventions to address their specific needs and ultimately reduce recurrent admissions. Methods: A quality improvement project was implemented [...]

Background: Patients with cancer diagnoses are known to have the highest likelihood of readmission to the hospital based on nationally available data. Reducing readmissions to the hospital has remained a national priority in healthcare quality, however it can be challenging to identify patients who are at highest risk for readmission to the hospital. Currently, our [...]