Alec B Rezigh, Anand D Jagannath, Austin C Rezigh, Ann Marie Kumfer, Stephanie V Sherman
{"title":"Eye catching.","authors":"Alec B Rezigh, Anand D Jagannath, Austin C Rezigh, Ann Marie Kumfer, Stephanie V Sherman","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 55 year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to the emergency department with subacute nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. He was found to have epididymitis and hyperglycemia that improved with antibiotics and supportive care. However, he was also discovered to have significant acute kidney injury and chronic, relapsing-remitting bouts of eye pain and redness, confirmed to be uveitis on ophthalmologic evaluation. Despite completing an appropriate course of antibiotics, his pyuria and kidney injury persisted. An extensive infectious, autoimmune, and malignancy work-up was negative. As such, renal biopsy was pursued and revealed findings consistent with tubulointerstitial nephritis. With a negative secondary work-up, he was diagnosed with tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (TINU) syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143652874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monee Amin, Meredith Trubitt, Avital Y O'Glasser, Michelle N Brooks
{"title":"Publish or perish: A path forward for digital scholarship.","authors":"Monee Amin, Meredith Trubitt, Avital Y O'Glasser, Michelle N Brooks","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143652877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literature and Medicine.","authors":"Aditi Mahajan","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143627086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing the ethical and legal complexities of hospital visitation restrictions for patients who are incarcerated.","authors":"Amber R Comer","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143598340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lily L Ackermann, Jagriti Chadha, Joseph R Sweigart, Jan Bowman, Nick Marzano, Ebrahim Barkoudah
{"title":"Clinical knowledge for hospital medicine through structured clinical offerings.","authors":"Lily L Ackermann, Jagriti Chadha, Joseph R Sweigart, Jan Bowman, Nick Marzano, Ebrahim Barkoudah","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Society of Hospital Medicine Rapid Clinical Updates (RCUs) was developed as a tool for healthcare professionals to bridge the gap between the latest advancements and standard clinical practice. An online seminar series with nationally recognized speakers was developed with input from hospitalists and literature review. For each session, a subspecialist was paired with a hospitalist to present the latest medical research and practical implementation into clinical practice. Active audience participation was encouraged, and survey data were collected on the quality of the sessions and their impact on clinical practice. Over the past 4 years, this virtual platform has consistently been rated as high-quality and impacting clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical debt in America, part III: Debt collection.","authors":"Luke Messac, Blake N Shultz, Ahmed M Ahmed","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the first two parts of the series, we described the sources of high prices in health care and the severe constraints faced by low-income patients when seeking to access care without incurring medical debt. In this third and final installment, we examine the origins of aggressive medical debt collection practices, their deleterious consequences for patients, and potential solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143538269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Preston Simmons, James Bowen, Matthew Molloy, Brooke Luo
{"title":"Secure messaging in medical training: Carving a path for trainee development in the digital age.","authors":"Preston Simmons, James Bowen, Matthew Molloy, Brooke Luo","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143506670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Installing updates.","authors":"Donna Coetzee, Andrew P J Olson","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143506669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Himali Weerahandi, Marisha Burden, Zoë Kopp, Catherine Callister, Jamie Burke, Khooshbu Dayton, Angela Keniston, Russell Ledford, Katie E Raffel, Jeffrey Schnipper, Andrew Auerbach
{"title":"Clinician perspectives on electronic health record behavioral alerts and hospital workplace violence prevention: A mixed methods study at 20 organizations.","authors":"Himali Weerahandi, Marisha Burden, Zoë Kopp, Catherine Callister, Jamie Burke, Khooshbu Dayton, Angela Keniston, Russell Ledford, Katie E Raffel, Jeffrey Schnipper, Andrew Auerbach","doi":"10.1002/jhm.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Workplace violence prevention programs are important for safety, but little is known about how they are perceived by clinicians or whether electronic health record (EHR) behavioral alerts are perceived as effective.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To understand perspectives on the use of EHR behavioral alerts as part of workplace violence prevention programs in hospitals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Mixed methods study utilizing semi-structured focus groups with a structured survey. Focus group participants were members of a national hopsitalist consortium.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-eight individuals from 20 different organizations participated in focus groups, with 24 (86%) completing the survey. There was broad uncertainty in best practices for inpatient workplace violence prevention. There was also wide variation in EHR behavioral alert use across multiple domains, including how and why the alerts are placed and how they are used by the end user. Finally, focus groups had mixed sentiments on the potential impacts of these alerts; among participants who responded to surveys, half (50%) noted that alerts caused deviations in care and 21% indicated they witnessed instances where behavioral alerts led to adverse patient outcomes. Most (67%) survey respondents did not think EHR behavioral alerts prevented workplace violence. The majority (88%) of respondents also reported that patient demographic factors impacted whether an alert was placed.</p><p><strong>Limitations: </strong>The study focused on clinician experience at academic hospitals.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Reports of uncertainty in best practices for deploying EHR behavioral alerts, along with perceptions of variability in implementation and potential biases in alert usage, raise concerns about their effectiveness and potential for worsening disparities. Standardized, evidence-based practices that safeguard healthcare workers without compromising patient care and equity are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":94084,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hospital medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143470438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}