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Who Consults Us and Why? An Evaluation of Medicine Consult/Comanagement Services at Academic Medical Centers

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Hospital Medicine, August 2018
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Title
Who Consults Us and Why? An Evaluation of Medicine Consult/Comanagement Services at Academic Medical Centers
Published in
Journal of Hospital Medicine, August 2018
DOI 10.12788/jhm.2996
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Authors

Emily S. Wang, Christopher Moreland, Michael Shoffeitt, Luci K. Leykum, Medicine Consult/Comanagement Consortium

Abstract

Although general medicine consultation is an integral component of inpatient medical care and a requirement of internal medicine training, little is known about current consultative practice. We used a cross-sectional, prospective survey design to examine current practices at 11 academic medical centers over four two-week periods from July 2014 through July 2015. Out of 11 consult services, four had comanagement agreements with surgical services, primarily with orthopedic surgery. We collected data regarding 1,264 consultation requests. Most requests (82.2%) originated from surgical services, with most requests originating from either orthopedic surgery (44.4%) or neurosurgery (11.6%). The most common reason for consultation at sites with a consult and comanagement service was medical management/ comanagement (23.3%) and at sites with a consultonly service was preoperative evaluation (16.4%). On average, consultants addressed more than two reasons per encounter. Many of these reasons were unidentified by the consulting service. Learners on these services should perform comprehensive evaluations to identify potentially unidentified issues.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 16 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 2 13%
Student > Master 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Unspecified 1 6%
Professor 1 6%
Other 2 13%
Unknown 6 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 6%
Unspecified 1 6%
Unknown 7 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 January 2019.
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#5,925,470
of 23,577,761 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Hospital Medicine
#1,197
of 2,170 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#100,595
of 336,343 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Hospital Medicine
#12
of 22 outputs
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