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Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Delays in the discharge process of hospitalized patients impact patient flow and lead to increased costs and slower progression of care. As hospitalist work becomes increasingly shift based, there are concerns for proper patient handoffs and hesitancy with clinical progression of care overnight. This leads to daytime patient flow congestion and is a significant […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Delays in the discharge process of hospitalized patients impact patient flow and lead to increased costs and slower progression of care. As hospitalist work becomes increasingly shift based, there are concerns for proper patient handoffs and hesitancy with clinical progression of care overnight. This leads to daytime patient flow congestion and is a significant […]
Abstract Number: 40
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Despite the current focus on developing handoff training curricula to improve patient safety, rigorous assessments of handoffs remain scarce. Immersive simulations allow for the evaluation of communication skills, but few specifically account for common external threats to effective handoff performance. Our aim was to investigate the effects of these interruptions in an educational handoff […]
Abstract Number: 176
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: To address safety risks with transitions from hospital to home, the IMPACT collaborative designed, tested and implemented the Pediatric Patient Centered Care Transition (PACT) Bundle. The bundle element “perfect” handoff (timely and complete) aimed to improve hospitalist handoff to outpatient providers at hospital discharge.Our objective was to assess outpatient medical provider’s perceptions of hospitalists’ handoff […]
Abstract Number: 318
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Day-to-night inpatient handoff is a high-risk moment, with potential for miscommunication. A novel handoff program recently reduced medical errors and preventable adverse events. Historically, handoffs performed by Internal Medicine residents at our institution were not standardized and there was little workplace-based performance feedback. We evaluated the impact of a novel standardized handoff tool and […]
Abstract Number: 331
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Failures in communication among healthcare personnel are known threats to patient safety. Communication is particularly vulnerable to error when patient care responsibility is transferred from one provider to another (i.e., handoff). In this study we implemented a web-based handoff tool and provider training, and evaluated the impact on preventable adverse events (AEs). Methods: We […]
Abstract Number: 350
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Inpatient handoffs have been recognized as a vulnerable time during a patient’s hospitalization and are widely associated with adverse events and near misses. A variety of strategies have been implemented in order to improve shift handoffs. To date, no study has described how residency program leadership views these strategies, or how the implementation of […]