Jonathan Bae, MD, assistant professor and associate medical director (Hospital Medicine) and associate program director for the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program shares the following research news:
The Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program, in conjunction with Hospital Medicine, continue to improve the quality of the care delivered to our patients with work ranging from patient satisfaction to care transitions to resiliency.
This work will be recognized in various forums this spring, including the 9th Annual Duke Patient Safety Conference, the North Carolina ACP Scientific Session, and the Society of Hospital Medicine's Annual Conference.
A listing of the projects accepted is included below:
“Cloudy with a Chance of Discharge: An Evaluation of General Medicine Discharge Prediction Forecasts.” Bae, JG, Ming, D, Choi, J, O’brien, C, Clark, A, Schulteis, R, Gentry, J. Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting
“The Accuracy of Identification of Patients with Pneumonia Through Administrative Data and Impact of Clinical Re-Classification on Readmission Rates.” Ruopp, M, Govert, J, Holland, T, Stillwagon, M, Velaquez, B, Shah, B, Bae, JG. Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference and 2014 NC-ACP Annual Scientific Session.
“The Highest of Utilizers of Care: Individualized Care Plans to Coordinate Care, Improve Health Care Service Utilization and Reduce Costs at an Academic Tertiary Care Center.” Mercer, T, Bae, JG, Velazquez, M, Setji, N. Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting and 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference.
“Doctor Who? A Study of Patient Provider Awareness.” Broderick, K, Hunter, W, Sharma, P, Schulteis, R, Zaas, A, Bae, JG. Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference, and 2014 NC-ACP Annual Scientific Session.
“Residents Finding Their Roots: Resident Workshops to Improve Patient Safety on the Wards While Teaching Residents Root Cause Analysis.” Boole, L, Seidelman, J, Zaas, A, Cheely, G, Chudgar, S, Clarke, J, Gallagher, D, Jolly Graham, A, O’brien, C, Setji, N, Shah, B, Thomas, S, Bae, JG. 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference and 2014 NC-ACP Annual Scientific Session.
“Increasing Hand Hygiene Compliance Amongst Medicine Housestaff Through Performance Incentives.” Seidelman, J, Hansen, J, Ray, E, Giattino, S, Zaas, A, Bae, JG, Boggan, J. 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference and 2014 NC-ACP Annual Scientific Session.
“The Burden of Burnout: An Assessment of Burnout Among Duke University Internal Medicine Residents.” Elmariah, H, Thomas, S, Boggan, J, Zaas, A, Bae, JG. 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference and 2014 NC-ACP Annual Scientific Session.
“We Follow-Up: Improving Follow-up, communication, and documentation of outpatient test results by Duke Residents.” Swaminathan, A, Boggan, J, Patel, S, Bae, JG. 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference and 2014 NC-ACP Annual Scientific Session.
“Impact of Transitions of Care Services in an Internal Medicine Clinic Population.” Cefaretti, M, Smith, B, Causey, H, Bowlby, L, Cheely, G, Cho, A, Dillard, J, Johnson, B, Knutsent, K, Rutledge, C, Simo, J, Bae, JG. 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference.
“Reducing Resident Burnout.” Ross, I, Fass, M, Dotters-Katz, S, Bae, JG. 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference.
“A Stakeholder Driven Project to Improve the Safety of Outside Hospital Transfers.” Shah K, Mitchell A, Lehman EP, Oloruntoba B, Elmariah H, Halbe J, Cheely G, Bae JG. 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference.
“Resident Response to Wellness Tools and Interventions.” Dotters-Katz, S, Fass, M, Ross, I, Silberman, A, Bae, JG. 9th Annual Duke Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Conference.
“Fostering competition to improve medicine resident influenza vaccination.” Huey, R, Boggan, J, Zaas, A, Averitt, J, Bae, JG. 2014 NC-ACP Annual Scientific Session.
“Working Your Core (Measures): Exercises to Improve Heart Failure Discharge Documentation.” Wachter, Adam, Smith, N. Duke 9th Annual Patient Safety Conference and Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Conference.
“Implementation of a nurse driven indwelling urinary catheter reduction program and the impact on catheter associated UTIs on General Medicine units.” Jolly Graham A, Bae JG, Clark A, Timberlake S, Isaacs P, Chen L, Wright S, Buckner C, Thompson L, Martt R, Clausen J, Stillwagon MJ, Spurney Y, Setji N. Duke 9th Annual Patient Safety Conference.
“Variation in Discharge Communication Preferences of Primary Care Providers and Hospitalists in a Hospital-Affiliated Health Network.” Stephany, A, Ming, D, Powers, B. Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Conference and Duke 9th Annual Patient Safety Conference.