Things We Do for No Reason: Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Medical Ward Patients?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obtaining blood cultures (BCs) for patients hospitalized with community-acquired-pneumonia (CAP) has been recommended by experts and used as a measure of quality of care. However, BCs are infrequently positive in these patients and their effect on clinical management has been questioned. PURPOSE:We performe...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Afshar N,Tabas J,Afshar K,Silbergleit R

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the state of research in academic hospital medicine (HM) despite the substantial growth of this specialty. METHODS:We used the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) membership database to identify research programs and their leadership. In addition, the members of the SHM Research Committ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Chopra V,Burden M,Jones CD,Mueller S,Gupta V,Ahuja N,Sigmund A,Eid SM,Society of Hospital Medicine Research Committee.

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One emerging policy solution for deterring low-value care is to financially penalize physicians who prescribe it. However, physicians' willingness to support such policies may depend on whether they perceive that benefits accrue to patients or to insurers and hospitals. We surveyed physicians practicing hospital medic...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Liao JM,Navathe AS,Schapira MM,Weissman A,Mitra N,Asch DA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital care on weekends has been associated with reduced quality and poor clinical outcomes, suggesting that decreases in overall intensity of care may have important clinical effects. We describe a new measure of hospital intensity of care based on utilization of the electronic health record (EHR). METHO...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Blecker S,Austrian JS,Shine D,Braithwaite RS,Radford MJ,Gourevitch MN

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies in the outpatient setting have demonstrated high rates of opioid prescribing and overdose-related deaths. Prescribing practices in hospitalized patients are unexamined. OBJECTIVE:To investigate patterns and predictors of opioid utilization in nonsurgical admissions to US hospitals, variation ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Herzig SJ,Rothberg MB,Cheung M,Ngo LH,Marcantonio ER

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many children's hospitals are actively working to reduce readmissions to improve care and avoid financial penalties. We sought to determine if pediatric readmission rates have changed over time. We used data from 66 hospitals in the Inpatient Essentials Database including index hospitalizations from January, 2010 thro...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Auger KA,Harris JM,Gay JC,Teufel R,McClead RE,Neuman MI,Agrawal R,Simon HK,Peltz A,Tejedor-Sojo J,Morse RB,Del Beccaro MA,Fieldston E,Shah SS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE:There is an increasing trend toward designing hospitals with patient-centered features like reduced noise, improved natural light, visitor friendly facilities, well-decorated rooms, and hotel-like amenities. It has also been suggested that because patients cannot reliably distinguish positive experiences wit...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Siddiqui ZK,Zuccarelli R,Durkin N,Wu AW,Brotman DJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-Is) are a widely used class of cardiovascular medication. However, limited data exist on the risks of postoperative nonresumption of an ACE-I. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the factors and 30-day mortality risks associated with the postoperative nonresumption of an ACE-...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Mudumbai SC,Takemoto S,Cason BA,Au S,Upadhyay A,Wallace AW

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who deteriorate outside the intensive care unit (ICU) are known to have elevated mortality and morbidity. Rapid response teams (RRTs) were developed to address such deterioration. It has not been possible to establish that RRTs employing manual detection methods have definitively improved hospital outcomes. B...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Escobar GJ,Dellinger RP

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient-centered care has been identified as 1 of the 6 aims for the 21st century healthcare system. The notepad is a simple tool for reminders and personal interactions. We introduced Dear Doctor (DD) notes, a bedside notepad designed to prompt patient questions and improve patient satisfaction. OBJECTIVE:...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Farberg AS,Lin AM,Kuhn L,Flanders SA,Kim CS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Mao F,Greysen SR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asymptomatic blood pressure elevation is common in the inpatient setting. National guidelines recommend treating with oral agents to slowly decrease blood pressure; however, many clinicians use intravenous antihypertensive medications, which can lead to unpredictable changes in blood pressure. OBJECTIVE:To ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Pasik SD,Chiu S,Yang J,Sinfield C,Zubizarreta N,Ramkeesoon R,Cho HJ,Krouss M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although interdisciplinary hospital quality improvement (QI) teams are both prevalent and associated with success of (QI) efforts, little is known about the behaviors of successful interdisciplinary QI teams. OBJECTIVE:We examined the specific behaviors of interdisciplinary QI teams in hospitals that succes...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Santana C,Curry LA,Nembhard IM,Berg DN,Bradley EH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient whiteboards can serve as a communication tool between hospital providers and as a mechanism to engage patients in their care, but little is known about their current use or best practices. METHODS:We surveyed bedside nurses, internal medicine housestaff, and hospitalists from the medical service at ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Sehgal NL,Green A,Vidyarthi AR,Blegen MA,Wachter RM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accountable care organization (ACO) concept is advocated as a promising value-based payment model that could successfully realign the current payment system to financially reward improvements in quality and efficiency. Focusing on the care of hospitalized patients and controlling a substantive portion of variable ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Li J,Williams MJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicians are notorious for poor hand hygiene (HH) compliance. We wondered if lower performance by physicians compared with other health professionals might reflect differences in the Hawthorne effect. We introduced covert HH observers to see if performance differences between physicians and nurses decreased and to g...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Kovacs-Litman A,Wong K,Shojania KG,Callery S,Vearncombe M,Leis JA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a diverse group of disorders typically with insidious onset. Diagnosis and management largely occur in the outpatient setting; however, ILD can present acutely necessitating hospitalization. Effective inpatient management requires the clinician to establish an accurate diagnosis and ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Farrand E,Shah R,Collard H

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The affordability of prescription medications continues to be a major public health issue in the United States. Estimates of cost-related medication underuse come largely from surveys of ambulatory patients. Hospitalized patients may be vulnerable to cost-related underuse and its consequences, but have been ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Choudhry NK,Saya UY,Shrank WH,Greenberg JO,Melia C,Bilodeau A,Kadehjian EK,Dolan ML,Dudley JC,Kachalia A

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression among hospitalized patients is often unrecognized, undiagnosed, and therefore untreated. Little is known about the feasibility of screening for depression during hospitalization, or whether depression is associated with poorer outcomes, longer hospital stays, and higher readmission rates. We searched PubMed...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： IsHak WW,Collison K,Danovitch I,Shek L,Kharazi P,Kim T,Jaffer KY,Naghdechi L,Lopez E,Nuckols T

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the Medicare population, measures of relative severity of illness (SOI) for hospitalized patents have been used in prospective payment models. Similar measures for pediatric populations have not been fully developed. OBJECTIVE:To develop hospitalization resource intensity scores for kids (H-RISK) using p...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Richardson T,Rodean J,Harris M,Berry J,Gay JC,Hall M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospital leaders have had mixed success reducing readmissions Little is known about the readmitted patient's perspective. METHODS:A cross-sectional 36-item survey was administered to 1084 readmitted inpatients of The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (an urban academic medical center) and Penn Pres...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Kangovi S,Grande D,Meehan P,Mitra N,Shannon R,Long JA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attending rounds at academic medical centers are often disconnected from patients and team members who are not physicians. Regionalization of care teams may facilitate bedside rounding and more frequent interactions among doctors, nurses, and patients. OBJECTIVE:We used time-motion analysis to investigate h...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Huang KT,Minahan J,Brita-Rossi P,Aylward P,Katz JT,Roy C,Schnipper JL,Boxer R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The "July phenomenon" refers to a purported worsening of outcomes in teaching-hospital patients with the arrival of new, inexperienced house-staff. Previous quantitative studies of new house-staff and increased mortality have been limited primarily by a focused patient population and the use of limited data ...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： van Walraven C,Jennings A,Wong J,Forster AJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common in the United States, with a prevalence of nearly 8% in the general population and between 10% and 30% in veterans. Despite how common PTSD is, inpatient providers may not be familiar with its manifestations or feel comfortable taking care of patients who may exhibit symp...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Fletcher KE,Steinbach S,Lewis F,Hendricks M,Kwan B

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women continue to be underrepresented as speakers at national conferences, and research has shown similar trends in hospital medicine. The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Annual Meeting has historically had an open call peer review process for workshop speakers and, in 2019, expanded the process for didactic speake...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Northcutt N,Papp S,Keniston A,Kara A,Kisuule F,Mandel C,Mathews B,Del Pino-Jones A,Smith D,Vuernick K,Burden M,Society of Hospital Medicine Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Special Interest Group.

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Problems experienced after hospital discharge can result in rehospitalizations and unscheduled urgent and emergent care. OBJECTIVE:To identify opportunities for improving discharge processes by examining calls to an advice line (AL). DESIGN:Prospective cohort. SETTING:A 500-bed, university-affiliated hosp...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Stella SA,Allyn R,Keniston A,Johnston LB,Burden M,Bogdan GM,Savoie C,Albert RK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although severity of illness indices such as pneumonia severity index (PSI) are good predictors of short-term mortality for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP), other patient factors may have added prognostic value. OBJECTIVE:To identify patient factors beyond the P...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Ding YY,Abisheganaden J,Chong WF,Heng BH,Lim TK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient safety indicators (PSI) were developed for hospitals to screen for healthcare-associated adverse events. PSIs are believed to be preventable and have become a part of major pay-for-performance programs. PSI-12 captures perioperative venous thromboembolism (VTE), which contributes to morbidity and mor...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Held N,Jung B,Sommervold L,Singh S,Kreuziger LB

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) is a safe way to administer intravenous (IV) antimicrobial therapy to patients with the potential to decrease hospital length of stay (LOS). Often, homeless patients with complex infections, who could otherwise be treated as an outpatient, remain in the hosp...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Beieler AM,Dellit TH,Chan JD,Dhanireddy S,Enzian LK,Stone TJ,Dwyer-O'Connor E,Lynch JB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased recognition of ionizing radiation risks has placed an emphasis on the appropriate use of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). Hospitalists frequently order MPI in the evaluation of chest pain and are thus at the forefront of its inpatient utilization. METHODS:We collected baseline figures for a gro...

journal_title：Journal of hospital medicine

authors： Bohossian HB,Park AW,Holcroft C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00