Scholars@Duke
Aparna S Kamath

Aparna S Kamath

Associate Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Hospital Medicine

Scholarly Works

Development of an Emergency Department Case Management Case-Finding Tool.

Conference Prof Case Manag · May 2024 PURPOSE OF STUDY: Identifying emergency department (ED) patients who are at high risk for return visits is an important goal for case management to improve patient care. This quality improvement study describes the development and evaluation of the Emergen ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Development of an Emergency Department Case Management Case-Finding Tool

Journal article Professional Case Management · May 2024 Purpose of Study:Identifying emergency department (ED) patients who are at high risk for return visits is an important goal for case management to improve patient care. This quality impro ... Full text Cite

Development of Emergency Department Case Management Case-Finding Tool

Conference Journal of Hospital Medicine · March 27, 2023 Background: Case Managers (CM) are now a standard presence in emergency departments (ED) of large hospitals, partnering with ED and Hospital Medicine providers to improve care. They are integral in improving hospital throughput and reducing unnecessary hos ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

HEART Failure? Episodes of Missed Major Cardiac Events When Applying the HEART Pathway to an Observation Unit Population.

Journal article Crit Pathw Cardiol · June 2018 OBJECTIVE: The HEART Pathway risk prediction tool (HEART score plus serial troponin measures at 0 and 3 hours post-presentation) is used to identify low-risk patients with chest pain who may qualify for safe, early discharge. We calculated the percentage o ... Full text Link to item Cite

X + Y = Time for QI: Meaningful Engagement of Residents in Quality Improvement During the Ambulatory Block

Journal article Journal of Graduate Medical Education · June 1, 2018 ABSTRACTBackground Meaningful resident engagement in quality improvement (QI) remains challenging. Barriers include a lack of t ... Full text Cite

Novel use of communication technology to improve nurse-physician communication, teamwork, and care coordination during bedside rounds*

Journal article Journal of Communication in Healthcare · January 2, 2018 Background: Inter-professional bedside rounding has been used to reduce communication deficits and improve patient outcomes. Our objective was to evaluate nurse and physician participation in inter-professional bedside rounds and perceptions of communicati ... Full text Cite

The Development and Evaluation of a Novel Instrument Assessing Residents' Discharge Summaries.

Journal article Acad Med · April 2017 PURPOSE: To develop and determine the reliability of a novel measurement instrument assessing the quality of residents' discharge summaries. METHOD: In 2014, the authors created a discharge summary evaluation instrument based on consensus recommendations f ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk factors and outcomes associated with surgical site infections after craniotomy or craniectomy

Journal article Journal of Neurosurgery · February 2014 ObjectMany studies that have evaluated surgical site infections (SSIs) after craniotomy or craniectomy (CRANI) did not use robust methods to assess risk factors for SSIs or outcomes associated with SSIs. The aut ... Full text Cite

Hospital Costs Associated with Smoking in Veterans Undergoing General Surgery

Journal article Journal of the American College of Surgeons · June 2012 Full text Cite