孩子的健康

Improving Inpatient Care with 儿科住院医师

作者：西蒙·李，医学博士
Specialty: Pediatric Hospitalist

Up until 10 years ago, it was common for pediatricians or family doctors to manage the care of patients admitted to the hospital. 虽然可能 sound pretty nice to someone with a strong relationship with their primary care provider, for a physician to be on-call all day, every day while managing inpatient and outpatient loads just wasn’t very efficient, 方便还是实用.

进入,住院医师.

住院医师 specialize in providing quality care for hospitalized patients, and serve as that vital bridge between primary care providers, hospital 工作人员和病人. While 在那里 can be any number of hospitalist subspecialties, as you can probably guess, pediatric hospitalists, such as myself, focus on hospital inpatients from birth to 18 years old. 如果孩子正在经历 complications in the emergency department, a pediatric hospitalist is 在那里. If 在那里’s a high-risk birth that may require resuscitation, a pediatric hospitalist is 在那里. Basically, if a baby, growing child or young adult is admitted into Washington Hospital, I or one of my pediatric hospitalist colleagues, are 在那里 to ensure safe, high-quality, developmentally-appropriate care.

In terms of being a community asset, the pediatric hospitalist program at Washington Hospital is kind of a hidden gem. 它允许立即 care in emergency situations, broadens the types of patients other specialists can care for (like high-risk pregnancies) and provides a thorough way to better care – all while keeping children and families in the community, close to home and their support networks.

An example of how the pediatric hospitalist program translates to improved care in the community is in our asthma protocol. 我的同事，儿科医生 Katherine Caldwell, MD, has really been the driving force behind implementing this new pathway for caring for children with asthma within the Washington 医院博彩app系统. But as a pediatric hospitalist, this is especially relevant because asthma is one of the most common admitting diagnosis we see in the pediatric population.

We can adhere to standards in terms of medications we’re using, when 我们启动它，我们如何使用它. More importantly, we coordinate with the patient’s pediatrician to get the child home and recovering as quickly as possible. It’s this communication and continuity that leads to better outcomes.

Another thing that makes the hospitalist program unique is Washington Hospital’s close relationship with UCSF Health. All of the pediatric hospitalists on staff – myself included – are part of the UCSF Department 儿科. We participate in a network of UCSF-affiliated academic and community-based hospitalist programs to create standards of practice for common neonatal and pediatric illnesses. This partnership means that best practices developed within academic medical institutes are put into practice in our community hospital setting faster and more efficiently.

Additionally, while, ideally, every patient in the community would be able to stay in the community when in the hospital, sometimes they need to go outside the community to receive more specialized care. 在这些情况下， we’re able to refer pediatric patients to one of the local Children’s 住院治疗.

At the end of the day, the real benefit of the pediatric hospitalist program at Washington Hospital is in reducing as much stress as possible in the stressful situation of child hospitalization. 通过提供这项服务， parents can ensure their child is getting the best possible care while in the hospital as well as continued care after discharge. 他们可以 do it without straying too far from home, support networks and other children they may be responsible for.

要博彩app关于 pediatric hospitalist program or Washington Hospital’s affiliation with UCSF，浏览 Washington 医院博彩app系统 website.

发布于2018年11月