Serious illness communication skills training for emergency physicians and advanced practice providers: a multi-method assessment of the reach and effectiveness of the intervention

Adeyemi, Oluwaseun; Ginsburg, Alexander D.; Kaur, Regina; Cuthel, Allison M.; Zhao, Nicole; Siman, Nina; Goldfeld, Keith S; Emlet, Lillian Liang; DiMaggio, Charles; Yamarik, Rebecca Liddicoat; Bouillon-Minois, Jean-Baptiste; Chodosh, Joshua; Grudzen, Corita R.

doi:10.1186/s12904-024-01349-y

Table 4 Reach of the EM Talk Training Across the Participating Emergency Departments

From: Serious illness communication skills training for emergency physicians and advanced practice providers: a multi-method assessment of the reach and effectiveness of the intervention

Hospital Name	Number of Full-Time EM Providers Trained	Total Number of Full-Time EM Providers	Percent Trained (%)	Average Annual Index Visits of Qualifying SI Patients	Number of SI Patients Encountered /Year	Yearly SI Patient: EM Provider ratio
Allegheny General Hospital	16	16	100.0	330	330	20.6
Baystate	33	35	94.3	915	863	26.2
Baystate Franklin	9	9	100.0	182	182	20.2
Beaumont Royal Oak	10	11	90.9	1265	1150	115.0
Beaumont Troy	15	18	83.3	1091	909	60.6
Bellevue Hospital Center	15	18	83.3	97	81	5.4
Brigham and Women's Hospital	19	21	90.5	1054	954	50.2
Brigham and Women's Faulkner	71	78	91.0	309	281	4.0
Christiana Hospital	33	44	75.0	892	669	20.3
Henry Ford Hospital	45	50	90.0	321	289	6.4
Henry Ford West Bloomfield	22	22	100.0	457	457	20.8
Henry Ford Fairlane	29	32	90.6	144	130	4.5
Hospital of the Univ of Penn	33	36	91.7	683	626	19.0
Mayo Austin Albert Lea	12	16	75.0	262	197	16.4
Mayo Mankato	17	22	77.3	367	284	16.7
Mayo St Mary	51	53	96.2	1162	1118	21.9
MD Anderson	21	26	80.8	1521	1229	58.5
Mount Sinai Beth Israel	16	19	84.2	281	237	14.8
Mount Sinai Hospital	47	48	97.9	722	707	15.0
Mount Sinai West	36	37	97.3	467	454	12.6
NYU Brooklyn	25	31	80.6	715	576	23.0
NYU Long Island	40	45	88.9	1100	978	24.5
Ochsner Medical Center	30	34	88.2	468	413	13.8
OSU Wexner Medical Center	49	78	62.8	800	502	10.2
Penn Presbyterian	15	20	75.0	305	229	15.3
Pennsylvania Hospital	10	13	76.9	280	215	21.5
UCSF Medical Center	15	18	83.3	623	519	34.6
UF Health Shands Hospital	23	31	74.2	215	160	7.0
UF Kanapaha	9	10	90.0	49	44	4.9
UF Springhill	11	13	84.6	141	119	10.8
University of Utah Hospital	35	39	89.7	490	440	12.6
Yale New Haven Hospital	33	42	78.6	1073	843	25.5
Zuckerberg SF General	34	44	77.3	264	204	6.0
Total	879	1029	85.4	19,045	16,389	18.6

Average SI Patients Qualifying Index Visits: Number of patients 66 years and older with an index ED visits who had a GAGNE index of six or higher. The average is calculated by dividing the 2018, 2019, and 2020 counts by 3. Estimated SI Patients Reached/Year = Percent Trained * SI Patients Qualifying Index Visits; Yearly SI Patient: EM Provider ratio Estimated SI Patients Reached/Number of EM Providers Trained, OSU Ohio State University, UF University of Florida, UCSF University of San Francisco, NYU New York University, Univ of Penn University of Pennsylvania

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