Meeting
Abstract Number: 238
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Hospital length of stay (LOS) serves as a key quality metric for evaluating efficient hospital management within health systems. improving LOS enables hospitals to effectively handle both elective and emergent admissions. Excessive demand without corresponding capacity results in emergency department and unit crowding, leading to unfavorable mortality outcomes, impacts patient and provider experiences, contributes […]
Abstract Number: 414
SHM Converge 2024
Background: For hospitalist sections that cover a variety of inpatient services from general medicine to oncology, geographic cohorting of patients may be difficult to execute and maintain. The varying influx of admissions and discharges can result in mismatches in available beds and services. Successful implementation of geographic assignment may require considerable costs including institutional support, […]