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Open research questions in Hospital Admissions and Outcomes

33 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 536 Hospital Admissions and Outcomes papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • While limited evidence from prior to the pandemic cited by ABEM indicates that burnout does not impact ITE scores, this study based their conclusions on the results of only two items from the Maslach Burnout Inventory [21].

    Adding Context to the Declining Board Pass Rate in Emergency Medicine · 2026 · DOI

  • Future work could incorporate larger cohorts, longer follow-up periods, and objective process measures such as completeness of clerking documentation, medication reconciliation accuracy, correct completion of admission tasks, or independently measured time to complete key workflow steps. A multi-centre evaluation would improve generalisability.

    Evaluating a Structured Workflow Guide to Improve Junior Doctor Preparedness for Vascular Surgery Late Shifts: A Prospective Paired Pre-Post Interventional Study · 2026 · DOI

  • Abstract Objectives The role of biological sex in interprofessional relationships is an important factor in collaborative health care settings such as the emergency department (ED) but one that has been sparsely studied.

    Comparison of nurse and resident physician paging frequency by sex in the emergency department · 2024 · DOI

  • While data-driven AE performance measurement and feedback (PMF) as a form of continuing professional development (CPD) has been presented as a possible approach to continuous quality improvement (CQI), little is known about the barriers and facilitators that influence surgeons' engagement and uptake of these CPD programs.

    Barriers and Facilitators to the Implementation and Adoption of a Continuous Quality Improvement Program in Surgery: A Case Study · 2022 · DOI

  • Residential aged care facilities (RACFs), also known as care homes, aged care homes or old people's homes, can provide unique and valuable medical student clinical learning opportunities (clerkships), including in interprofessional practice (IPP), but the literature suggests that this practice is limited to the Netherlands, the USA and Australia.

    Medical students in residential aged care: A guide · 2020 · DOI

  • Although having a hospital-based skilled nursing facility (HBSNF) in a hospital could help in improving care for patients needing short-term skilled nursing or rehabilitation services, little is known about HBSNFs' association with hospitals' readmission rates.

    Reduction in Hospitals’ Readmission Rates: Role of Hospital-Based Skilled Nursing Facilities · 2019 · DOI

  • As this is currently lacking, the purpose of this paper is to establish a Homeless Healthcare Team (HHT) and design a hospital protocol for the discharge of NFA patients with strong links into community support.

    Establishing a hospital healthcare team in a District General Hospital – transforming a model into a reality · 2019 · DOI

  • Despite the need to develop a non-medical out-of-hours (OOHs) workforce to address increasing healthcare demands and to support a strained GP workforce, there is no consensus on the required training and clinical competencies needed for nurses and paramedics to be developed as safe OOH practitioners.

    Preparing non-medical clinicians to deliver GP out-of-hours services: lessons learned from an innovative approach · 2018 · DOI

  • 5 These barriers include the following: ineffective communication lack of standardization equipment issues (such as with audio recordings or computer access) environmental issues (such as interruptions and distractions) lack or misuse of time difficulties related to complexity of patients (such as increasing acuity and volume of patients) lack of training or education human factors.

    The role of unlicensed assistive personnel in patient handoff · 2017 · DOI

  • The assessment tools used are adapted from other contexts of doctors' training but little is known about how they function in day-to-day practice within GP training or how valid and useful they are found to be by trainees.

    Training in hospitals: what do GP specialist trainees think of workplace-based assessments? · 2011 · DOI

  • The doctors were per- ceived not only as failing to consult other groups when it seemed advisable to do so and rejecting their authority more often than is warranted, but also as failing to make decisions or exercise their authority on matters which the respondents con- sidered to be their responsibility” (1 961:265).

    To Superintend the Sick: A Role Analysis of the Hospital Administrator · 1970 · DOI

  • This resource aims to fill a gap in the literature by equipping leaders in academic medicine with a structured approach to designing, executing, and sustaining the benefits of faculty retreats.

    Faculty Retreats in Academic Medicine: Tutorial · 2025 · DOI

  • CONCLUSION: In light of generally positive albeit limited evidence for standardised rounding practices, faculty development initiatives might use these data to inform and educate faculty members regarding the use of standardised protocols for bedside rounds.

    Contemporary practice of standardised bedside teaching rounds · 2020 · DOI

  • Originality/value Scarce literature exists on the practicalities of attempting to set up an HHT in a District General Hospital.

    Establishing a hospital healthcare team in a District General Hospital – transforming a model into a reality · 2019 · DOI

  • Feeding tube-related complications accounted for almost half of all ED visits, representing a common but underrecognized burden of this intervention.

    Hospital Transfers of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia · 2012 · DOI

  • BACKGROUND: Little is known about whether assignment to simultaneous inpatient and outpatient clinical duties causes disruptions during internal medicine resident continuity clinic and impacts trainee satisfaction.

    Disruptions and Satisfaction in Internal Medicine Resident Continuity Clinic Differ Between Inpatient and Outpatient Rotations · 2007 · DOI

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