A5056391055- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Disaster Response and Management
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
2020-2025
University of Colorado Denver
2020-2024
University of Colorado Cancer Center
2024
University of Colorado Hospital
2020-2024
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute
2021
WinnMed
2021
ABSTRACT Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated already existing stressors within health care. In August 2020, a campus-wide well-being survey indicated high levels of burnout, stress, and mental concerns among certified nurse practitioners (CNPs), clinical specialists (CNSs), physician assistants (PAs) our Department Medicine. Purpose: response to this survey, an interdisciplinary task force was formed by CNPs, CNSs, PAs across departmental specialty divisions conduct focus...
Abstract Background Medicare previously announced plans for new billing reforms inpatient visits that are shared by physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) whereby the clinician spending most time on patient visit would bill visit. Objective To understand how hospital medicine teams utilize APPs in care proposed policies might impact future APP utilization. Design, Setting Participants We conducted focus groups with hospitalist physicians, APPs, other leaders from 21 academic...
BACKGROUND In nearly all areas of academic medicine, disparities still exist for women and underrepresented minorities (URMs). OBJECTIVES Develop a strategic plan advancing diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI); implement evaluate the plan, specifically focusing on compensation, recruitment, policies. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS Programmatic evaluation conducted in division hospital medicine (DHM) at major medical center involving DHM faculty staff. MEASUREMENTS (1) Development implementation...
Hospital systems have rapidly adapted to manage the influx of patients with COVID-19 and hospitalists, specialists in inpatient care, been at forefront this response, adapting serve ever-changing needs community hospital system. Institutional leaders, including clinical care team members administrators, deployed many different strategies (i.e. adaptations) patients. While were utilized hospitals across United States, it is unclear how frontline teams experienced these multifaceted changes....
Background Typical solutions for improving discharge planning often rely on one-way communication mechanisms, static data entry into the electronic health record (EHR), or in-person meetings. Lack of timely and effective can adversely affect patients their care teams. Objective Applying robust user-centered design strategies, we aimed to an innovative EHR-based readiness tool (the Discharge Today tool) enable teams communicate any barriers discharge, status patient readiness, needs in real...
203 Background: Early integration of palliative care services for advanced oncology patients has a well-documented benefit on quality-of-life measures including symptom management, quality-of-death measures, cost-effectiveness, care-giver burden, and patient satisfaction metrics. However many barriers exist, delayed referrals negative perceptions hospice/palliative by families. Furthermore, wait times from referral to visit can vary weeks months. For with late-stage disease, rapidly...
In the face of hospital capacity strain, hospitals have developed multifaceted plans to try improve patient flow. Many these initiatives focused on timing discharges and lowering lengths stay, they met with variable success. We deployed a novel tool in electronic health record enhance discharge communication.The aim this study is evaluate effectiveness communication tool.This was prospective, single-center, pre-post study. Hospitalist physicians advanced practice providers (APPs) used...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Typical solutions for improving discharge planning often rely on one-way communication mechanisms, static data entry into the electronic health record (EHR), or in-person meetings. Lack of timely and effective can adversely affect patients their care teams. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> Applying robust user-centered design strategies, we aimed to an innovative EHR-based readiness tool (the Discharge Today tool) enable teams communicate any barriers...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> In the face of hospital capacity strain, hospitals have developed multifaceted plans to try improve patient flow. Many these initiatives focused on timing discharges and lowering lengths stay, they met with variable success. We deployed a novel tool in electronic health record enhance discharge communication. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> The aim this study is evaluate effectiveness communication tool. <title>METHODS</title> This was prospective,...