Meeting
Abstract Number: 301
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: While CT imaging has become an invaluable tool for expedited medical evaluation, its use has been associated with an increasing number of incidental findings, the handling of which creates both medical and logistical challenges. Pulmonary nodules are among the most frequent and medically relevant incidental findings, but are easily overlooked – especially when discovered […]
Abstract Number: 353
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Poor communication among health providers during transitions of care (TOC) between inpatient and outpatient settings is being increasingly recognized as responsible for subpar health outcomes, wasteful healthcare spending and low patient satisfaction. Such poor communication remains the status quo as it becomes part of the implicit curriculum in residency training when residents are not […]