Meeting
Abstract Number: 6
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Academic medical centers are complex healthcare delivery systems that are quickly adopting electronic health records (EHR) nationwide while still using alpha-numeric paging for physicians-in-training raised with cell phones, texting, messaging, and newer technologies. Understanding workflow processes for these providers of patient care are key to finding solutions to improve healthcare quality and safety. […]
Abstract Number: 379
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: On October 1, 2007, Medicare changed their payment structure from Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) to Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG) based reimbursement. This led institutions to prioritize clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs in an attempt to align healthcare resources with patient complexity. Complete documentation has other benefits to a healthcare system as well. These […]
Abstract Number: 571
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A previously independent and active 89-year-old male without past medical history was brought to the hospital by his son with a 6-day history of progressively worsening confusion. Per the son, the patient lived alone on a 10-acre property that included fruit orchards, a fishing pond, and 100 acres of surrounding woodlands on which […]