Our research advances the scientific basis and clinical practice of hospital medicine. We also train, educate, and mentor the next generation of hospital medicine researchers who can advance our scientific mission into the future.
Research
Our faculty members are actively involved in scholarship and research activities within the field of hospital medicine, and are published in numerous, prominent journals.
Our faculty members are actively involved in scholarship and research activities within the field of hospital medicine, and are published in numerous, prominent journals.
Areas of Current Research
- Appropriate use of urinary catheters and associated CAUTI
- Appropriate use of antibiotics in hospitalized medical patients
- Appropriate use of inpatient nebulizers at the VA
- Appropriate use of inpatient daily labs at the VA
- Geriatric/Palliative Care inter-professional rounding
- Hospitalist-Oncologist communication
- Impact of early mobilization on functional outcomes in patients with severe sepsis who are admitted to the general medicine wards
- Improving the efficiency of hospital-based care
- Infection prevention and control in acute care hospitals
- Physician attire
- Less Lumens = Less Risk -multidisciplinary process targeting reducing unnecessary PICC lumens
Also of note are the following, which are led by Michigan Medicine hospitalists:
Quality Improvement
Many of our faculty members are engaged in various quality initiatives with the goal of continuously improving patient safety and quality care.
