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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: 85
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Most patient discharges(DC) from hospitals occur in the afternoons, thus creating patient flow and potentially patient safety issues. This creates increased ER boarding hours and delays interunit patient transfers between ICU, stepdown and medical units. Sick patients may not be getting the appropriate level of care due to lack of higher level of care beds. Purpose: To increase […]
Abstract Number: 120
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Acute Medical Assessment Units (AMAU) in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand improve inpatient flow and quality. It is critical to spread such best practices. Qatar, a GCC state (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and UAE) has tremendous recent population growth stressing the healthcare system. Hamad General Hospital (HGH), the main national hospital, […]
Abstract Number: 135
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Research suggests that COPD patients with low peak inspiratory flow rate (PIFR,
Abstract Number: 196
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Keeping admitted patients in the emergency room (ER) carries negative operational and clinical consequences. Prolonged stays reduce ER bed turnover, thereby limiting access for other patients. Furthermore prolonged ER length of stay (LOS) has shown to be an independent risk factor for 30 day mortality for admitted patients. For these reasons, Veterans Affairs (VA) […]
Abstract Number: 258
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Late discharges are a known barrier to patient flow. Our project was to identify barriers to early discharges and develop processes to increase early discharges from the inpatient medicine teams. Purpose: “Daily afternoon multidisciplinary team huddles will increase the % of discharge orders before 10am by 10% on the medicine teams by June 2015” Description: We initially analyzed reasons […]
Abstract Number: 276
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Abstract Text: Background: Safely and efficiently moving patients through the admission process is a key concern for emergency and hospital medicine faculty. Our hospitalist group admits approximately 400 patients per month, each admitting physician evaluates approximately 7.5 patients per shift, utilizing individual approaches. We aimed to improve the quality of our admissions by standardizing our […]