Hospitalists Boost Outcomes

Hospitals’ Primary Care Docs Boost Outcomes | WP | 9.25.07

Hospitalist care had the strongest association with length of stay in patients with specific diagnoses, including cerebrovascular accidents (strokes), congestive heart failure, pneumonia, sepsis, urinary tract infections and asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,” the researchers wrote. “The close monitoring and continuous presence offered by hospitalists may allow for earlier discharge, because hospitalists are more likely to detect clinical improvement in real time and to make appropriate adjustments in treatment regimens.

Hospitalist Care and Length of Stay in Patients Requiring Complex Discharge Planning and Close Clinical Monitoring | Arch Internal Med | 9.24.07

Teaching hospitalist care was associated with shorter LOS in patients requiring close clinical monitoring and complex discharge planning, without adversely affecting readmission or mortality rates.