HOSPITAL MEDICINE RESEARCH
Division of Hospital Medicine Current Research Projects
Communication/Teamwork Studies
Communication Assessment Tool (CAT)
Physician-patient communication assessment.
PI: Mark Williams, MD
Discharge Project
Assessing patient understanding at point of discharge.
PI: Mark Williams, MD
Nursing-Hospitalist Communication
Developing nursing satisfaction tool.
PI: Mark Williams, MD
Publications:
End of Life Communication
Educating nurses and residents to have meaningful DNR conversations with patients and their families.
PI: Eytan Szmuilowicz, MD
INTERACT
Teamwork project looking at how interdisciplinary rounds can increase communication and decrease adverse events.
PI: Kevin O'Leary, MD, MS
Publications:
Impact of Care Coordination
The impact of care coordination on quality and efficiency outcomes in the care of medically complex surgical patients.
PI: Keiki Hinami, MD, MS
BOOST
Improving care of patients as they transfer from hospital to home care
PI: Mark Williams, MD
Publications:
Time Flow Studies
Time Flow
Time flow analysis of how hospital physicians spend their days.
PI: Mark Williams, MD
ICU Nursing Time Flow
Time flow project looking at ICU nurses and physicians pre-and post-EMR implementation.
PI: Mark Williams, MD
Quality Improvement Focused Research
UHC Re-Admit
Analyzing UHC database from the re-admit benchmark project
PI: Luke Hansen, MD
AMA-Heart Failure
Exploring validity of data in EDW for AMA heart failure guidelines
PI: Jeffrey Barsuk, MD
Publications:
Transition of Care Evidence-Based Review
Evidence-based review of transitions of care literature.
PI: Luke Hansen, MD, MS
Safety Culture
The relationship between hospital patient safety culture and mortality and readmission among patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and pneumonia.
PI: Luke Hansen, MD, MS
HOMERUN
A) Penn antibiotic Trial for Cap
B) AHRQ infrastructure grant
PI: Mark Williams, MD
Teaching/Training Research
Webster Teaching
Agusta Webster funding to develop a curriculum to teach hospitalists about Palliative Care.
PI: Eytan Szmuilowicz, MD
Simulation Project
Evaluating the effectiveness of the mastery learning approach in simulation training for procedures.
PI: Jeffrey Barsuk, MD
Publications:
Hospitalist Teaching Project
Agusta Webster funding to develop a curriculum to train hospitalists to be better teachers.
PI: Marianne Tschoe, MD
