Jeydith Gutierrez, Jane Moeckli, Andrea Holcombe, Amy Mj O'Shea, George Bailey, Kelby Rewerts, Mariko Hagiwara, Steven Sullivan, Melissa Simon, Peter Kaboli
BACKGROUND: Telehospitalist services are an innovative alternative approach to address staffing issues in rural and small hospitals. OBJECTIVE: To determine clinical outcomes and staff and patient satisfaction with a novel telehospitalist program among Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: We conducted a mixed-methods evaluation of a quality improvement program with pre-and postimplementation measures...
February 17, 2021: Journal of Hospital Medicine: An Official Publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine