Impact of the hospitalist system on inpatient mortality and length of hospital stay in a teaching hospital in Japan: a retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the differences in the quality of care among inpatients before and after the introduction of the hospitalist system.

Design

A retrospective observational study.

Setting

A community teaching hospital in Japan.

Participants

The inpatients admitted between the preintervention (January-December 2018) and 1-year intervention (January-December 2019) periods. There were 8508 and 8788 inpatients in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Interventions

The study compared the lengths of hospital stay and mortality among inpatients between the pre-and post-intervention (2018 and 2019) periods concerning the introduction of a hospital medicine department.

Outcome measures

The primary objective was to evaluate and compare the in-hospital mortality an

SUBMITTER: Kurihara M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8981289 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature