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University of Michigan launches specialty-hospitalist alliance program for collaborative research

Hospitalist Leadership Connection, September 2, 2008

Many academic hospitalist settings have been slow to create successful clinical research programs, according to the University of Michigan.  Because some programs fail to recognize the importance of specialists in clinical research in hospital-based academic centers, the hospitalist program at the university’s department of internal medicine created the Specialty-Hospitalist Allied Research Program, otherwise known as SHARP. Co-directed by a hospitalist and subspecialist, SHARP started two projects to combine the efforts of both medical staff groups in the following initiatives:

  • A collaborative trial between hospitalists and infectious disease specialists on antiseptic agents to reduce false-positive blood cultures
  • A study by hospitalists, clinical pharmacists, and geriatricians on techniques to reduce medication errors during patient discharges

SHARP currently pools data from single institutions but plans to expand to multi-center research, according to the study abstract.  From this research, SHARP hopes the collaborative specialty-hospitalist efforts will lead to improved inpatient care.

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