2021 Visual Abstracts
October 2021
►How Organizations Can Build a Successful and Sustainable Social Media Presence
►Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Discharge Opioid Prescribing From a Hospital Medicine Service
►Leadership & Professional Development: New Team? No Problem. Creating Teams From Strangers
►Tweeting Into the Void: Effective Use of Social Media for Healthcare Professionals
►Practicing High-Value Pediatric Care During a Pandemic: The Challenges and Opportunities
►Drawing Down From Crisis: More Lessons From a Soldier
►Black Pain Matters: Prioritizing Antiracism and Equity in the Opioid Epidemic
September 2021
►Continuing Cardiopulmonary Symptoms, Disability, and Financial Toxicity 1 Month After Hospitalization for Third-Wave COVID-19: Early Results From a US Nationwide Cohort
►Scholarly Productivity and Rank in Academic Hospital Medicine
►Leadership & Professional Development: How to Teach When You Don’t Know
►Things We Do for No Reason™: Obtaining Urine Testing in Older Adults With Delirium Without Signs or Symptoms of Urinary Tract Infection
►Point: Routine Daily Physical Exams in Hospitalized Patients Are a Waste of Time
►The Limited Academic Footprint of Hospital Medicine: Where Do We Go From Here?
August 2021
►Identifying the Sickest During Triage: Using Point-of-Care Severity Scores to Predict Prognosis in Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Sepsis
►Inpatient Glycemic Control With Sliding Scale Insulin in Noncritical Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: Who Can Slide?
►Impact of a Hospitalist-Run Procedure Service on Time to Paracentesis and Length of Stay
►Leadership & Professional Development: We Are Being Watched
►Risk of Intestinal Necrosis With Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
►Things We Do for No Reason™: Calculating a “Corrected Calcium” Level
July 2021
►Outcomes Following Implementation of a Hospital-Wide, Multicomponent Delirium Care Pathway
►Automating Measurement of Trainee Work Hours
►Pediatric Conditions Requiring Minimal Intervention or Observation After Interfacility Transfer
►Leadership & Professional Development: Cultivating Microcultures of Well-being
►Things We Do For No Reason™: Rasburicase for Adult Patients With Tumor Lysis Syndrome
►The Medical Liability Environment: Is It Really Any Worse for Hospitalists?
►Measuring Trainee Duty Hours: The Times They Are a-Changin’
June 2021
►Ready to Go Home? Assessment of Shared Mental Models of the Patient and Discharging Team Regarding Readiness for Hospital Discharge
►A Resident-Led Intervention to Increase Initiation of Buprenorphine Maintenance for Hospitalized Patients With Opioid Use Disorder
►Gender Differences in the Presentation and Outcomes of Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19
►Leadership & Professional Development: Specialty Silos in Medicine
►Things We Do for No Reason™: NPO After Midnight
►Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? The Case for Shared Mental Models in Hospital Discharges
►Discharge by Noon: Toward a Better Understanding of Benefits and Costs
May 2021
►Nine Seasons of a Bronchiolitis Observation Unit and Home Oxygen Therapy Protocol
►Decreasing Hospital Observation Time for Febrile Infants
►SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Among Healthcare Workers by Workplace Exposure Risk in Kashmir, India
►SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Among Healthcare Workers by Job Function and Work Location in a New York Inner-City Hospital
►Things We Do for No Reason™: Universal Venous Thromboembolism Chemoprophylaxis in Low-Risk Hospitalized Medical Patients
►Bronchiolitis: Less Is More, but Different Is Better
►Predictors of COVID-19 Seropositivity Among Healthcare Workers: An Important Piece of an Incomplete Puzzle
►Le Petit Prince: Lessons From a Beloved Fable for Our Current Time
April 2021
►Variation in COVID-19 Mortality Across 117 US Hospitals in High- and Low-Burden Settings
►Healthcare Encounter and Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Hospitals
►Things We Do for No Reason™: Ova and Parasite Testing in Patients With Acute Diarrhea Arising During Hospitalization
►A Rising Tide: No Hospital Is an Island Unto Itself in the Era of COVID-19
►Preserving Margins to Promote Missions: COVID-19’s Toll on US Children’s Hospitals
March 2021
►Readmissions Following Hospitalization for Infection in Children With or Without Medical Complexity
►Early and Significant Reduction in C-Reactive Protein Levels After Corticosteroid Therapy Is Associated With Reduced Mortality in Patients With COVID-19
►Antibiotic Regimens and Associated Outcomes in Children Hospitalized With Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome
►Implementing a Telehospitalist Program Between Veterans Health Administration Hospitals: Outcomes, Acceptance, and Barriers to Implementation
►Leadership & Professional Development: Lessons Learned From the Other Side of the Stethoscope (and Endotracheal Tube)
►Can You Hear Me Now? Telemedicine in Rural America
February 2021
►Finding Your Bagel
►Opportunities for Stewardship in the Transition From Intravenous to Enteral Antibiotics in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients
►Gender-Based Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Among Academic Internal Medicine Hospitalists
►Trends in COVID-19 Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rates
►Leadership & Professional Development: The Delicate Dance of Yes and No
►Things We Do for No Reason™: Routine Correction of Elevated INR and Thrombocytopenia Prior to Paracentesis in Patients with Cirrhosis
►Missed Opportunities for Transitioning to Oral Antibiotic Therapy
►Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination in Hospital Medicine: A Call to Action
January 2021
►Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Non-ICU Hospitalization for COVID-19 in a Nonepicenter, Centrally Monitored Healthcare System
►Caring for Noncritically Ill Coronavirus Patients
►Care Transitions: A Complex Problem That Requires a Complexity Mindset
►Barriers and Facilitators to Guideline-Adherent Pulse Oximetry Use in Bronchiolitis
►Gender Distribution in Pediatric Hospital Medicine Leadership
►Building a New Framework for Equity: Pediatric Hospital Medicine Must Lead the Way
►Leadership & Professional Development: From Seed to Fruit—How to Get Your Academic Project Across the Finish Line
►Racial Health Disparities, COVID-19, and a Way Forward for US Health Systems
►Opportunities for Improving Population Health in the Post–COVID-19 Era
