A quality improvement initiative aimed at reducing service strain and improving physician wellness in internal medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hospital strain has been shown to negatively impact physician wellness, educational experience, and patient care. To address rising service demands, a non-academic hospitalist service was implemented to reduce daily clinical teaching unit (CTU) census by approximately 30%. Secondary aims were to evaluate physician and trainee wellness on CTU as well as assess unintended adverse patient outcomes.

Methods

A two-phase intervention was implemented at one of two academic hospital campuses in January and April 2023. Mean daily census, mortality, 30-day readmissions, and length of stay (LOS) were obtained from an administrative database for the pre-study (October to December 2022) and study (January to December 2023) periods. The Mini-Z physician wellness survey was ad

SUBMITTER: Evans J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11781061 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature