The Effect of Geographic Cohorting of Inpatient Teaching Services on Patient Outcomes and Resident Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Geographic cohorting is a hospital admission structure in which every patient on a given physician team is admitted to a dedicated hospital unit. Little is known about the long-term impact of this admission structure on patient outcomes and resident satisfaction.

Objective

To evaluate the effect of geographic cohorting on patient outcomes and resident satisfaction among inpatient internal medicine teaching services within an academic hospital.

Design and intervention

We conducted an interrupted time series analysis examining patient outcomes before and after the transition to geographic cohorting of our 3 inpatient teaching services within a 520-bed academic hospital in November 2017. The study observation period spanned from January 2017 to October 2018, a

SUBMITTER: Klein AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9551005 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature