QUALITY OF CARE STATISTICS

Hospitalists have favorable impact on Quality of Care
In-Hospital Mortality Rates from Two Case Studies

 

  Without Hospitalists With Hospitalists
UC San Francisco (1) 6.60% 6.30%
Healthcare Partners (2) 4.70% 2.90%
  (1) Traditional attending (817 patients) versus hospitalist-based service(805 patients)

(2) Medicare risk population; PCPs (580 patients) versus hospitalists (1,100 patients)

Source: Wachter RM, et al., "Reorganizing an Academic Medical Service...," JAMA, 279, no. 19 (1998); 1560-1565; CIC interviews.
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