Association of Hospitalist Years of Experience With Mortality in the Hospitalized Medicare Population.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Substantial numbers of hospitalists are fresh graduates of residency training programs. Current data about the effect of hospitalist years of experience on patient outcomes are lacking.

Objective

To describe the association of hospitalist years of experience with 30-day mortality and hospital mortality of their patients.

Design, setting, and participants

We used a 5% sample of national Medicare data of patient and hospital characteristics to build a multilevel logistic regression model to predict mortality as a function of years of experience of the hospitalists. We created 2 cohorts. The first was a cross-sectional cohort of 21 612 hospitalists working between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014, with a 5-year look-back period to assess their years of prior ex

SUBMITTER: Goodwin JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5801052 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature