Implementation of the Hospitalist System and In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients With Cancer: Using the National Health Insurance Cohort Data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hospitalists are directly responsible for inpatients, from hospitalization to discharge. Recently, Korea has started reimbursing hospitalist inpatient services. However, evidence of hospitalists being associated with improved healthcare quality is lacking. We investigated the association between the hospitalist system and reduced in-hospital mortality among patients with cancer.

Methods

This national population-based retrospective cohort study included 398,732 patients with cancer from tertiary and general hospitals with hospitalists whose data were extracted from the Korean National Health Insurance Service Cohort Database in 2021. In-hospital mortality data was obtained, defined as the presence of a record of death between admission and discharge. To increase

SUBMITTER: Jang YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12491651 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature