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- Title
Physician views on caring for hospitalized patients and the hospitalist model of inpatient care.
- Authors
Auerbach, Andre D.; Davis, Roger B.; Phillips, Russell S.; Auerbach, A D; Davis, R B; Phillips, R S
- Abstract
We surveyed 241 board-certified internists affiliated with a large teaching hospital (Boston, Mass) before implementing a hospitalist service to determine attitudes towards providing inpatient care and the hospitalist model. Of physicians surveyed, 66% responded. Most disagreed that inpatient care is "an inefficient use of my time," only 10% felt a hospitalist service would improve patient satisfaction, and 54% felt it would hurt patient-doctor relationships. Multivariable analyses suggest that physicians physically furthest from their inpatient site were had more favorable attitudes toward the hospitalist model; more experienced and busier physicians were more negative. Future investigations should determine strategies for implementing the hospitalist model which address physicians' concerns.
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; BOSTON (Mass.); UNITED States; PHYSICIANS; HOSPITAL patients; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2001, Vol 16, Issue 2, p116
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-1497.2001.91154.x