Length of Stay (LOS) Shorter For Patients Cared For By Hospitalists

According to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Medicare patients cared for by hospitalists experienced the greatest reduction in length of stay compared with care provided by non hospitalists when the patients were

• Older
• More complicated
• Non surgical
• Got admitted to a community hospital

That's what hospitalists do.  That's where they shine.  Just under two million Medicare admissions to five thousand hospitals from 2001 to 2006 were examined in this retrospective cohort study.  If you are a community hospital who's physicians are taking care of old, sick, complicated Medicare patients and you don't have an established hospitalist group, consider yourself falling quickly behind the curve.

We all know length of stay means everything to hospital economics, maybe even a 57 million dollar hospitalist advantage. 

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