Quality
Clinical
Creating a digital pill
It’s the latest development in a burgeoning field.
Quality
Implementing a health literacy assessment
Limited health literacy is associated with poor outcomes – and it’s common.
Quality
A patient portal for the inpatient experience
Portals help more patients engage with care outside the hospital, but inside they are still uncommon.
Quality
Clinician denial of some patient requests decrease patient satisfaction
Is clinician denial of particular patient requests associated with the patient’s satisfaction with that clinician?
Career
Physician learning must evolve as industry transforms
Standardized patient encounter training is a live simulation in a clinical setting with trained actors.
Quality
Readmitted patients less likely to be “very satisfied” with index admission
Clinical question: Are patient perceptions of care during index hospitalization associated with likelihood of 30-day readmission...
Quality
Inpatient care by PCPs associated with lower mortality than care by hospitalists
Clinical question: Are there differences in mortality and health care resource utilization in patients treated by hospitalists,...
From the Society
Launching into the future
Dr. Nasim Afsar became the new president of the Society of Hospital Medicine in April 2018.
HM18
Building a career in quality improvement
The session will provide some boots-on-the-ground insight from clinicians at various stages in this space.
Quality
Admitting medicine patients to off-service, nonmedicine units linked with increased in-hospital mortality
Do medicine patients admitted to off-service inpatient units during times of hospital saturation have worse quality of care and outcomes?