Research Aim
The Program in Hospital Medicine aims to generate new knowledge that can be used to improve the care of hospitalized patients locally and nationally.
The program also strives to have our research meet the operational needs of Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale New Haven Health. Through this work, we endeavor to develop and evaluate novel care practices. While areas of research focus evolve over time, the current areas of interest for the Program include:
- Evaluating utilization, processes, and outcomes associated with clinical pathways.
- Improving inpatient care of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).
- Comparing processes of care and outcomes among patients cared for by hospitalists versus those cared for by medical sub-specialists.
- Identifying optimal strategies of care in the post-hospital discharge period.
- Characterizing clinical deterioration preceding transfer to higher levels of inpatient care.
- Improving care transitions into, within, and out of the hospital setting
Selected Grants, Projects, and Bibliographies of Program faculty:
Sarwat Chaudhry, MD
- Outcomes of Medicare Patients Admitted for Less Than 24 Hours: an Observational Study.Chen K, Djulbegovic M, Agarwal R, Chaudhry SI. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 May; 2021 May 3. PMID: 33942235.
- Patient-Reported Quality of Hospital Discharge Transitions: Results from the SILVER-AMI Study.Richards BG, Hajduk AM, Perry J, Krumholz HM, Khan AM, Chaudhry SI. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Mar; 2019 Oct 25. PMID: 31654359.
- Predicting 6-Month Mortality for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Cohort Study.Dodson JA, Hajduk AM, Geda M, Krumholz HM, Murphy TE, Tsang S, Tinetti ME, Nanna MG, McNamara R, Gill TM, Chaudhry SI. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Jan 7; 2019 Dec 10. PMID: 31816630.
- Association Between Mobility Measured During Hospitalization and Functional Outcomes in Older Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction in the SILVER-AMI Study.Hajduk AM, Murphy TE, Geda ME, Dodson JA, Tsang S, Haghighat L, Tinetti ME, Gill TM, Chaudhry SI. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Dec 1. PMID: 31589285.
Selected Grants
- NHLBI, NIA, NIDA
Christopher Sankey, MD
- Leadership & Professional Development: Relational Leadership-It's Not About You.Sankey C. J Hosp Med. 2021 Dec. PMID: 34826268.
- Implementation of an automated scheduling tool improves schedule quality and resident satisfaction.Howard FM, Gao CA, Sankey C. PLoS One. 2020; 2020 Aug 11. PMID: 32780751.
- Using System Inflammatory Response Syndrome as an Easy-to-Implement, Sustainable, and Automated Tool for All-Cause Deterioration Among Medical Inpatients.Fogerty RL, Sussman LS, Kenyon K, Li F, Sukumar N, Kliger AS, Acker K, Sankey C. J Patient Saf. 2019 Dec. PMID: 29369071.
Accepted for Publication
Haghighat L, Israel H, Jordan E, Bernstein EL, Vargese M, Cherry B, Van Tonder R, Honiden S, Liu R, Sankey C. Development and Evaluation of Resident-Championed Point-of-Care-Ultrasound Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents. POCUS. 2021. Accepted for publication.
Selected Projects
- Site lead for several multisite national studies in hospital medicine
Thilan Wijesekera, MD
- Middle school meets MedEd: Five K-12 teaching strategies medical educators should know.Gaeta Gazzola M, Swallow MA, Wijesekera TP. Med Teach. 2022 May; 2022 Feb 17. PMID: 35174759.
- The Management Script: A Practical Tool for Teaching Management Reasoning.Parsons AS, Wijesekera TP, Rencic JJ. Acad Med. 2020 Aug. PMID: 32349018.
- Reflections on Diagnosis and Diagnostic Errors: a Survey of Internal Medicine Resident and Attending Physicians.Wijesekera TP, Sanders L, Windish DM. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Feb; 2019 May 15. PMID: 31093840.
In Press
Wijesekera, TP, Parsons, AS, Abdoler, EA, Trowbridge, RL, Durning, SJ, Rencic, JJ. Management Reasoning: A Toolbox for Educators. Acad Med. In Press.
Angela Kang-Giaimo, MD
- A Case of Thiamine Deficiency Post Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.Rubel A, Kang A, Saleem M. Am J Med. 2021 Feb; 2020 Sep 12. PMID: 32931764.
Articles
Kang, A. The medical profession must address the injustices Black patients suffer. KevinMd.com: social media’s leading physician voice; 2020, Sep 21.
Sharon Ostfeld-Johns, MD
- Web Exclusive. Annals Graphic Medicine - Eewy Body Dementia.Ostfeld-Johns S. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Jan 21; 2020 Jan 14. PMID: 31931528.
- Something Happened When I Was There.Ostfeld-Johns S. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Dec 17. PMID: 31842210.
- I Care (Coordinate) About You.Ostfeld-Johns S. J Grad Med Educ. 2019 Feb. PMID: 30805108.