Meeting
Abstract Number: 209
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The daily progress note is the foundation of inpatient documentation and communication for healthcare providers. With the advent of the electronic medical record, copy-and-pasting, note bloat, inconsistencies, erroneous data, and lack of cognitive processing have become widespread leading to difficult to read and inaccurate progress notes. Purpose: At Bassett Medical Center, it was determined […]
Abstract Number: 256
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Healthcare costs continue to represent a growing burden on the American economy. Current research has focused on methods to eliminate unnecessary tests or procedures to save costs and prevent waste. Hepatitis C antibody testing represents one example of a test that, when positive, almost never needs to be repeated in a patient’s lifetime. Once […]