SHM Converge Scientific Abstract ePoster Gallery-But What Does Inclusion Look Like? Insights From Hospitalists

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The document summarizes a national survey of hospitalists and hospital medicine leaders in the HOMERuN network about what “inclusion” looks like in practice.

Key points:
- <strong>Background:</strong> Hospitalist groups have system-wide influence on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) efforts, but inclusion is difficult to define and even harder to measure.
- <strong>Objective:</strong> The study aimed to describe how hospitalists and leaders perceive an inclusive environment.
- <strong>Methods:</strong> In 2021, a national survey was sent to HOMERuN members. Researchers used rapid thematic analysis of open-ended responses and compared answers based on participants’ ratings of how inclusive their hospital medicine division was.
- <strong>Results:</strong> 139 out of 539 participants (32%) answered the open-ended questions. The analysis identified <strong>four key themes</strong> related to inclusion.
- <strong>Main ideas shown in the graphic:</strong> Inclusion requires alignment between workplace culture and everyday patient care experiences. Leadership actions and rhetoric strongly affect whether inclusion is advanced or undermined. Possible indicators of inclusion include:
  - concrete investment in DEIJ efforts
  - diversity within the group

Overall, the message is that inclusion is not just a stated value—it must be reflected in leadership behavior, organizational culture, and real commitment to DEIJ initiatives.

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Maya Narayanan

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Author List Amelita Woodruff, Andrew D. Auerbach, Anne S. Linker, Archna Eniasivam, Areeba Kara, Ashley Jenkins, Benji K. Mathews, David Sterken, Gopi J. Astik, Maya Narayanan, Michelle Fletcher, Nila S. Radhakrishnan, Sarah Saari, Tiffany M. Lee

Category Research

Concept Inclusion

Concept Inclusive Environment

Concept Inclusivity Measure

Concept Definition of Inclusion

Concept Measurement of Inclusion

Distinguished Non-Finalist

Presenter Organization University of Washington School of Medicine

Presenting Author Maya Narayanan

Track Other

Keywords

hospital medicine

inclusion

diversity equity inclusion justice

DEIJ

hospitalists

leadership

organizational culture

survey

thematic analysis

patient care

Inclusion

Inclusive Environment

Inclusivity Measure

Definition of Inclusion

Measurement of Inclusion