Seeing too many docs lead to longer hospital stay
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, May 13, 2008
Patients who see multiple hospital physicians may have longer stays, according to a recent study released by IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. and presented by the Society of Hospital Medicine at its annual meeting in San Diego last month. The study surveyed more than 10,000 pneumonia and heart failure patients and found that multiple doctor care led to fragmentation, thereby lengthening hospital stays by one-half or one-third of a day, respectively.
“Our results suggest that if the same hospitalist takes care of a patient for the majority of his or her stay, then the patients’ length of stay is demonstrably shorter than if their care is handled by multiple hospitalists,” says Kenneth Epstein, MD, MBA, director of medical affairs and clinical research at IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. and a faculty member at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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