Lindsay R. Beaman HBS, Amelia K. Barwise MB, BCh, PhD
{"title":"A case study on language barriers, health literacy, and family interpretation: What is ethical communication?","authors":"Lindsay R. Beaman HBS, Amelia K. Barwise MB, BCh, PhD","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13512","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"20 4","pages":"399-402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142335283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The maturation of grief education in medical training","authors":"Rachel Thienprayoon MD, MSCS, FAAP, FAAHPM","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13511","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13511","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"20 2","pages":"207-208"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142304974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership & professional development: Developing expertise in traditionally subspecialty topics","authors":"Mikhail Y. Akbashev MD, Tiffany A. Walker MD","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13508","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13508","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"20 2","pages":"172-173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142304973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Career development committees: A guide for early- and mid-career faculty.","authors":"Samir S Shah","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142247565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons from patient safety to accelerate healthcare decarbonization","authors":"Hardeep Singh MD, MPH, Emily Senay MD, Jodi D. Sherman MD","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13493","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13493","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change and environmental degradation are increasingly impacting human health, with more frequent heatwaves, wildfires, extreme weather events, emerging infectious diseases, increased respiratory, cardiovascular, and mental health conditions, and food and water insecurity.<span><sup>1</sup></span> Current projections of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions suggest it will be harder to limit warming below the critical threshold of 2°C to avoid the worst predicted harms unless deep and immediate reductions in GHGs occur in all sectors of society. The healthcare sector contributes approximately 4.6% of total global GHGs and 4 million disability-adjusted life years lost from air pollution annually.<span><sup>1</sup></span> Health care must do its part to mitigate environmental degradation and pollution and avoid excessive resource consumption.<span><sup>2, 3</sup></span></p><p>One-fifth of global healthcare GHG contributions come from the US healthcare sector despite the United States comprising only 4% of the global population. A number of motivated US healthcare delivery organizations (HCOs) have begun to implement decarbonization initiatives, and these efforts should be applauded.<span><sup>4, 5</sup></span> However, many of these initiatives are not grounded in rigorous measurement and data transparency, making it difficult to judge the veracity of claims or progress consistent with science-based targets.<span><sup>6</sup></span> The nascent state of healthcare sustainability is reminiscent of the early days of the patient safety movement and is experiencing similar growing pains. In 1999, the report “To Err is Human” raised the alarm about patient safety, but demonstrable improvement was slow going and hampered by, among other things, a lack of data and transparency required for guiding and tracking evidence-based performance improvement.<span><sup>7</sup></span> Progress has been made since then primarily through regulatory and payment reforms, and in 2025, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected to implement a Patient Safety Structural Measure that further embeds measurement, accountability, and transparency in assessing how hospitals ensure patient safety.<span><sup>8</sup></span> However, the urgency of the climate crisis and healthcare's significant contribution to it leaves no room for decades-long delays. To ensure progress in the absence of regulation and payment levers, HCOs should apply the principles guiding the patient safety movement to ensure that data transparency and verification are the centerpiece of the transformation to evidenced-based, environmentally sustainable health care.</p><p>Previous research has quantified the harmful effects of US healthcare pollution at nearly 400,000 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in 2018.<span><sup>9</sup></span> Creating effective systems to protect patients, the public, and the planet from harm requires adherence to basic principles of trans","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"19 11","pages":"1071-1076"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jhm.13493","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142247611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quality of care in Veterans Health Administration hospitals: Helping veterans decide “Should I stay, or should I go?”","authors":"Donna Coetzee MD, MPH, Charlie M. Wray DO, MS","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13503","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13503","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"20 3","pages":"319-320"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142142199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shannon K. Martin MD, MS, H. Barrett Fromme MD, MHPE, Claire Hailey MD
{"title":"Bedside rounds: Not where but why","authors":"Shannon K. Martin MD, MS, H. Barrett Fromme MD, MHPE, Claire Hailey MD","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13504","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13504","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"20 2","pages":"205-206"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142142198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The growing cost of adult care in pediatric hospitals","authors":"Rachel J. Peterson MD, Jessica L. Markham MD, MSc","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13500","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13500","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"20 5","pages":"524-525"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142127759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sean Robert Dornbush DO, MBA, Michael Scott Kleinman MD, Elisha McCoy MD, Jeffrey Craig Winer MD, MA, MSHS, Anna Quantrille Allen MD
{"title":"Age has an independent association with total cost of care in adults admitted to pediatric hospitals","authors":"Sean Robert Dornbush DO, MBA, Michael Scott Kleinman MD, Elisha McCoy MD, Jeffrey Craig Winer MD, MA, MSHS, Anna Quantrille Allen MD","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13501","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13501","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous studies in adults admitted to pediatric hospitals primarily investigated associations between complex chronic condition characteristics and patient outcomes. Our study explored the association of age with length of stay (LOS) and total cost in these adults, accounting for other patient factors. Using the Pediatric Health Information System, we included 1,215,736 patient encounters from 2021 to 2022. Unadjusted and adjusted analyses were performed using bivariable and multivariable log-linear regression. There was a significant positive association between age and total cost, with adults 18–20 years having 13% higher total cost (95% confidence interval [CI]: 12%–15%), 21–25 years with 25% higher total cost (95% CI: 22%–29%), and 25–99 years having 72% higher total cost (95% CI: 66%–79%) than 1–17 years. Our findings suggest expanding upon the existing status quo to identify the most appropriate environment to care for this unique and growing population, especially given the anticipated reduction in pediatric beds and subspecialty expertise.</p>","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"20 2","pages":"167-171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142121358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical guideline highlight for the hospitalist: Diagnosis and management of acute bacterial arthritis in children","authors":"Brandon Palmer MD, MACM, Austin Cummings MD, Danita Hahn MD","doi":"10.1002/jhm.13499","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jhm.13499","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>GUIDELINE TITLE</b>: Clinical Practice Guideline by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): 2023 Guideline on Diagnosis and Management of Acute Bacterial Arthritis</p><p><b>RELEASE DATE</b>: January 1, 2024</p><p><b>PRIOR VERSION(S):</b> n/a</p><p><b>DEVELOPER</b>: Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)</p><p><b>FUNDING SOURCE</b>: PIDS and IDSA</p><p><b>TARGET POPULATION</b>: Children with suspected or confirmed acute bacterial arthritis</p>","PeriodicalId":15883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":"19 12","pages":"1162-1164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142116577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}