Background: Hospital at Home (HaH) provides inpatient level of care to patients within their homes and replaces the brick and mortar inpatient experience. Our institution’s HaH program has had incredible success and has enrolled over 2000 patients to date and continues to expand. The growth of our program has allowed us to accept more complex [...]

Background: The benefits of palliative care for hospitalized cancer patients are well known and have become a hallmark of high-quality oncologic care. This evolution in cancer treatment has led to a growing demand for palliative care services, and to questions about how to most effectively integrate this specialty into patient care. Furthermore, the field of [...]

Background: There is some observational evidence for the benefit of having an infectious diseases (ID) physician provide consultative support in the care of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). A recent randomized trial was unable to document a similar benefit, although the control group received a concurrent stewardship intervention. We wanted to determine the effect [...]

Background: UC Davis Medical Center is a 646-bed tertiary care center and level 1 pediatric and adult trauma center, serving over 33 counties. Most inpatient internal medicine consultations originate from orthopedic and trauma services, with a significant subset of fragility fractures and geriatric patients. We established a co-management service to provide additional assistance for the [...]

Background: Patients with substance use disorders (SUD) are frequently cared for by hospitalists and admission presents an opportunity to engage patients in SUD treatment. Currently, patients with SUD are undertreated with medications to treat SUD, despite proven reduction in mortality. Addiction consult services are increasingly seen as an intervention to improve the quality of care [...]