Meeting
Abstract Number: F17
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Hospital-at-Home (HaH) is a safe and effective alternative to high-cost, traditional hospitalization in patients with a range of medical conditions, such as non-severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The COVID-19 pandemic created a unique situation with favorable policy changes, hospital resource constraints, and a clearly defined patient population that helped to increase HaH program deployment and […]
Abstract Number: H12
SHM Converge 2022
Background: While the electronic health record (EHR) provides many benefits, its use can easily allow for incomplete documentation of relevant historical information. The EHR is designed to store documentation of a patient’s past medical history (PMH), surgical history (PSH), family history (FH), and active hospital problems in the History tab. When the information is in […]
Abstract Number: O21
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Evidence-based guidelines/protocols for electrolyte replacement that safely encourage oral (PO) and/or intravenous (IV) dosing attain goal levels more successfully than standard care. PO is generally more comfortable and less dangerous than IV. Between 5/2017-11/2017, our institution dosed ~300,000 doses of potassium (K) and magnesium (Mg), with 30% and 19% of doses being PO, respectively. […]