Two hospitalists who presented RIV posters at HM15 talk about their projects. Dr. Brian Poustinchian worked on a bedside rounding study at Midwestern University in Illinois, and Dr. Jennifer Pascoe worked on a poster about patients leaving the hospital against medical advice, focusing on a case of her own at the University of Rochester.
In last month’s issue of The Hospitalist, members of SHM’s Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee wrote about attribution challenges. Building on that article, the use of quality...
A hospital leader assigns the hospital medicine division chief to reduce the division’s length of stay (LOS). The division chief chooses LOS as a measure and focuses on individuals’ LOS by...
Current approaches to quality improvement (QI) resident education have made limited progress in bridging the healthcare quality chasm, despite over two decades since medical practitioners first...
For Joel Bradley, MD, director of graduate medical education quality and safety education and an adult and pediatric hospitalist at Dartmouth Health in Hannover, N.H., quality improvement (QI) by...
