Pediatric Hospitalist Co-Management of Surgical Patients Improves Safety Outcomes

Pediatric inpatient units care for increasing proportions of medically complex surgical patients at risk for adverse events. Hospitalist surgical co-management has been identified as a potential safety strategy to decrease this risk. We sought to determine the impact of a pediatric hospitalist co-management program on length of stay (LOS), mortality, and medical errors.This retrospective cross-sectional study compared patients who received hospitalist co-management from 2005-2012, with historical control patients admitted to the surgical services from 2000-2005 at the Johns Hopkins …