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Only Modest HLOS and Cost Reductions Achieved
By Staff Writers
In the first large scale study on hospitalists, researchers followed 75,000 patients admitted to 45 hospitals between September 2002 and June 2005. They concluded that hospitalists reduced the average four-day hospital length of stay [HLOS] by about 12% [half-day].
However, despite the HLOS reduction, hospitalists offered only modest savings compared with general internists, and no significant savings over family doctors.
The researchers opined that hospitalists may simply do the same amount of work in less time, or may order more tests since they aren’t intimately familiar with patients’ histories.
The study was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM].
And so, how do these results affect your opine of the hospitalist movement?
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Our numbers blow this study away.
It’s not even close.
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Could results vary with demographics and hospital settings?
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The Happy Hospitalist makes a good point.
Does anyone have any research, data, results or empirical evidence to refute or support the NJEM study.
-Hope
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More … on Hospitalists
Despite a reputation of sending patients home sooner and in better shape, hospitalist care ultimately could cost more as a result of higher admissions to the hospital after discharge.
http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/hospitalist-care-results-higher-readmissions-ed-visits/2011-08-03
Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA
http://www.BusinesofMedicalPractice.com
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