http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucd_ome_posters_hospital/rss Recent eScholarship items from Hospital Medicine Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:42:30 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jk7s3q5 <p>A small but significant portion of UCDMS inpatients have been medically cleared discharge but are unable to be placed for weeks to months.</p><p>Extended boarding in hospital beds is harmful to patients</p><p>• Patients are at risk for falls or hospital acquired infections.</p><p>• Hospital beds lack privacy and quiet offered by lower levels of care, which is especially unhealthy for patients with psychiatric or neurocognitive comorbidities.</p><p>Extended boarding in hospital beds is expensive and wasteful</p><p>• Care at UCDMC is significantly more expensive than at lower levels of care, so weeks or months spent at a higher than necessary level of care represents a significant and unnecessary expenditure of resources.</p><p>From January to December, 2019, there were 53 adult patients with LOS&gt;100 days. 17 of those patients were medically justified for staying that long and were discharged within a week of medical clearance. The rest, 36 patients, were discharged 13 to... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jk7s3q5 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Rosecrans, N. Campista, J.A. Patel, P. Tellez, G. Olson, C.R. Ponce, L. Signoff, E. Molla, M.