Meeting
Abstract Number: 188
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Inpatient stewardship has appropriately become a large focus of acute inpatient care. The Vizient™ Clinical Data Base contains hospital discharge data used for benchmarking, and we observed significantly elevated cardiac MRI (cMRI) use at our tertiary hospital, relative to other tertiary academic medical centers, with resource utilization percentile averaging in the top decile (figure […]
Abstract Number: 250
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Healthcare expenditures in the US have been increasing at an unsustainable rate, and thus there is a strong interest in resource stewardship of low-value diagnostic tests. At our institution, internal data, as well as The Vizient™ Clinical Data Base, showed high utilization of inpatient daily labs (complete blood count (CBC), basic metabolic panel (BMP) […]
Abstract Number: 639
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old male comorbid with hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia presented to the emergency department with a 1-month history of worsening bifrontal headaches and progressive cognitive decline. The headaches were increasing in both frequency and severity, occurring throughout the day and night. He also endorsed nausea, light sensitivity, word-finding difficulty, and new memory […]
Abstract Number: 723
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 2-year-old female presented to our Gastroenterology service with persistent failure to thrive (FTT). She was born at term and remained in the 10th percentile in weight for the first nine months. She continued to grow in length but did not gain weight. Initial inpatient workup at 13 months revealed a CBC, TSH, […]
Abstract Number: 750
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: 69 y/o female presents to the emergency department with acute on subacute low back pain in the setting of fall 12 weeks prior. Treated outpatient with conservative therapy including topicals, NSAIDs, tramadol, Flexeril and physical therapy. PMH of asthma, migraines, breast cancer in remission (s/p lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation in 2015, last annual […]