Lei Jin

TL;DR: This observational study suggests that patients cared for by hospitalists had shorter hospital stays, lower costs, and lower short-term mortality compared with patients care for by nonhospitalists, suggesting that hospitalists' skills improve with additional clinical experience.

TL;DR: Overall, self-reported Charlson indices predict 1-year mortality comparably with indices based on administrative data, and administrative data may offer some small improvements in predictive ability and may be preferred when readily available.

TL;DR: The Health Disparities Collaborative improved diabetes care in health centers in 1 year, and major challenges included needing more time and resources, initial difficulty developing computerized patient registries, team and staff turnover, and occasional need for more support by senior management.

TL;DR: Suboptimal medication selection was fairly common and was associated with worse patient-reported health-related quality of life and was correlated with worse physical function and pain.

TL;DR: It is found that the relationship between patient communication ratings and overall patient satisfaction may be confounded by patient-level factors, but there is evidence of a statistically significant and sizable relationship between physicians' communication behaviors andOverall patient satisfaction after controlling for such factors.