The UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine is dedicated to providing the highest quality inpatient care for patients on the USCF Medical Service and to the promotion of quality improvement and patient safety throughout the medical center. We also aim to disseminate the fruits of our work through lectures, publications, and other vehicles, and to help train our residents, students, and fellows in the techniques of quality improvement.

With their diverse interests and backgrounds, members of the group are currently leading a variety of innovative projects. Selected QI projects being led by UCSF hospitalists include:

• Enhancing Care Transitions
• Collaborative Daily Bedside Rounds- a program to improve physician-nurse communication
• Protocol for Management of Alcohol Withdrawal
• Protocol for Prevention and Management of Delirium
• Medical Service Intern Signout- an educational program to enhance physician signout in the setting of new resident duty hours requirements
• Perioperative Performance Improvement Project- assessing the use of β-blockers, glucose management, surgical site infection and DVT prophylaxis
• DVT Treatment and DVT Prophylaxis Protocols
• JCAHO Core Measures in community acquired pneumonia and smoking cessation.
• Post-Discharge Home Visits- a collaborative pharmacy-hospitalist project for patients at high risk for readmission

UCSF Hospitalists are also leaders and key participants in many interdisciplinary medical center performance improvement committees including the Patient Safety Committee, Clinical Performance Improvement Committee, Physicians Advisory Group for Clinical Information Systems, Patient Satisfaction Committee, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, and the Patient Flow Committee.