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Abstract Number: 35
SHM Converge 2024
Background: To date, there are limited reports around the use of well-designed information technology tools to enhance throughput communication during interdisciplinary rounds (IDRs). In collaboration with our technology innovations center, we developed a Microsoft Teams IDR tool known as “NORA.” NORA is an automated process-oriented tool designed to extract patient summary information from electronic health […]
Abstract Number: 59
SHM Converge 2024
Background: The medical rounds are the most essential process in care of the hospitalized patients. If the patients do not receive enough information about the round-time, they cannot arrange their personal time in the hospital. The object of this study is to investigate the effect of the real-time round notification using text messages on the […]
Abstract Number: 79
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Internal Medicine Teaching Teams (IMTTs) aim to deliver both exceptional clinical education and efficient, high-quality patient care. However, increasing workloads and the fast pace on inpatient wards are challenging this dual objective. Our study sought to understand the tensions between education and clinical practice in IMTTs and how academic leaders are addressing these challenges. […]
Abstract Number: 173
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Pediatric hospitalists are responsible for providing high quality care in the hospital setting while teaching learners and maintaining a professional learning environment. This skill is rarely taught during medical training. Peer observation is a collaborative tool with potential for mutual benefit; offering the observer an opportunity to learn new strategies and the individual observed […]
Abstract Number: 264
SHM Converge 2024
Background: In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement recommending a standard practice for families and nurses to participate in rounds. Family-centered rounds (FCR) improves patient safety, patient and family satisfaction, provider satisfaction, interdisciplinary communication, and discharge planning. However, coordinating FCR in an easy and efficient manner to include all stakeholders remains a […]
Abstract Number: 272
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Patient portals are intended to engage caregivers with their child’s healthcare by allowing them to read clinical notes, access test results, make appointments, and message providers, and they are often used during hospitalization. While patient portals typically offer multiple language options, the extent to which medical information is translated remains limited. Understanding how caregivers […]
Abstract Number: 283
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Interdisciplinary rounds are an important part of care coordination on medical units and on teaching units they usually are resident-led. After restructuring interdisciplinary rounds in our institution, we began including attending physicians, with the goal to improve care coordination, discharge planning and team communication. Methods: The intervention was conducted on a 35-bed medical teaching […]
Abstract Number: 314
SHM Converge 2024
Background: A 2013 Mayo Clinic initiative (Henkin et al, 2016) to encourage communication between physicians and nurses by paging each to bedside for daily morning rounds improved physician and nursing perceptions of teamwork. Utilizing a mobile electronic-health-record-based alert for such a process has the potential to reduce implementation cost and feasibility barriers but has not […]
Abstract Number: 316
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Interdisciplinary Rounds (IDRs) are essential for coordinating patient care on hospital units within the two acute care hospitals of St. Peter’s Health Partners located in Albany, New York (a 440-bed tertiary care hospital and a 160-bed hospital). However, with a length of stay O:E ratio as high as 1.34, we were concerned that not […]
Abstract Number: 317
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Interprofessional Plan of Care Rounds (POCR) are an organized assembly of the following health care team members: physicians, nursing, case management, social work, physical therapy, pharmacy, and other ancillary services (Terra, 2015). The purpose of the rounds is for the group to concisely review each patient, his or her goals for the day, discharge […]