America's health care system is broken: what went wrong and how we can fix it. Part 3: hospitals and doctors

EP Hoffer - The American Journal of Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Thirty-two percent of US health care spending goes to hospital care, and 20% goes to
physicians' charges. The cost of hospital care in the United States is 2-3 times greater than …

Potentially avoidable admissions to general internal medicine at an academic teaching hospital: an observational study

AM Cressman, U Purohit, E Shadowitz… - … Open Access Journal, 2023 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Identifying potentially avoidable admissions to Canadian hospitals is an
important health system goal. With general internal medicine (GIM) accounting for 40% of …

[HTML][HTML] Physician experience design (PXD): more usable machine learning prediction for clinical decision making

L Wang, M Chignell, Y Zhang, A Pinto… - AMIA Summits on …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Delirium is an acute neurocognitive disorder, which is difficult to identify and predict. Using
GEMINI 1, Canada's largest hospital data and analytics study, we had a labeled sample of …

[HTML][HTML] Feasibility and impact of trauma-informed care training in internal medicine residency: a pilot study

D Ramadurai, J Knoeckel, RJ Stace, S Stella - Cureus, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction: Mounting evidence indicates that early life trauma is highly prevalent and
associated with adverse health outcomes later in life. However, primary care providers …

Evaluation of an intervention targeted with predictive analytics to prevent readmissions in an integrated health system: observational study

BJ Marafino, GJ Escobar, MT Baiocchi, VX Liu… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objectives To determine the associations between a care coordination intervention (the
Transitions Program) targeted to patients after hospital discharge and 30 day readmission …

Participation in daily activities after acute illness hospitalization among high‐functioning older adults: a qualitative study

M Arieli, R Kizony, E Gil, M Agmon - Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims and objectives To describe high‐functioning older adults' experiences of participation
in daily activities and perceived barriers and facilitators to participation one‐and 3‐months …

Evaluation of a multicomponent care transitions program for high‐risk hospitalized older adults

PJ Huckfeldt, B Reyes, G Engstrom… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES To test the effectiveness of a multicomponent care transition intervention
targeted at hospitalized patients, aged 75 years and older, at high risk for hospital …

Melatonin administration patterns for pediatric inpatients in a tertiary children's hospital

DE Procaccini, SR Kudchadkar - Hospital pediatrics, 2021 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES Melatonin has been trialed with reported increasing use for sleep
dysregulation and prevention of ICU delirium in critically ill adults; however, reports of use in …

180-day readmission risk model for older adults with acute myocardial infarction: the SILVER-AMI study

JA Dodson, AM Hajduk, TE Murphy, M Geda… - Open …, 2021 - openheart.bmj.com
Objective To develop a 180-day readmission risk model for older adults with acute
myocardial infarction (AMI) that considered a broad range of clinical, demographic and age …

Post hospital syndrome: is the stress of hospitalization causing harm?

C Caraballo, K Dharmarajan… - Revista espanola de …, 2019 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Post Hospital Syndrome: Is the Stress of Hospitalization Causing Harm? Post Hospital
Syndrome: Is the Stress of Hospitalization Causing Harm? Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed). 2019 …