With current healthcare reform and calls for improving care quality and safety, there is
renewed emphasis on high‐value care. Moreover, given the significant healthcare resource …

Background/Purpose Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a universal problem,
especially with the shortage of hospital beds. We studied the characteristics and outcomes …

PURPOSE: To assess the effects of hospitalist care on communication, care patterns, and
outcomes of dying patients. METHODS: We examined the charts of 148 patients who had …

Introducción el envejecimiento y el cambio sociocultural frente a la muerte hacen que cada
vez sea mayor el número de personas que fallecen en los hospitales. Objetivos analizar …

Hospitalists are uniquely positioned to implement strategies to improve patient flow and
efficiency. Hospital leaders have stated they expect hospitalists to comanage surgical …

Objective: To increase earlier access to palliative care, and in turn increase documented
goals of care and appropriate hospice referrals for seriously ill patients admitted to hospital …

Background Palliative care seeks to improve outcomes for patients with advanced illness
(AI). Advocacy exists for making it part of mainstream care for hospitalized patients with AI …

Translating ethical theories into clinical practice presents a perennial challenge to
educators. While many suggestions have been put forth to bridge the theory-practice gap …

Health-care providers engaged in palliative care experience difficulty with the practice of
team care. However, the details of the difficulties have not been not clarified. To obtain an …

Several years after the inception of the hospitalist movement, hospitalist roles have evolved
in breadth and sophistication. Although public health is not formally recognized or previously …