Medical Trauma on the Inpatient Medicine Service: Perspectives of Recently Hospitalized Patients, Residents, and the Interdisciplinary Care Team.

While trauma's impact on health and well-being is increasingly emphasized in outpatient and pediatric settings, less is known about how a patient's history of trauma, especially healthcare-related trauma ("medical trauma"), may shape experiences of safety, trust, and distress on a general internal medicine inpatient service.

We sought to understand how recently hospitalized adults experience safety, trust, and distress during hospitalization, and how resident physicians and interdisciplinary care team members perceive barriers to delivering trauma-informed care.