Meeting
Abstract Number: 113
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding and delays in ED throughput have several important consequences , such as boarding of admitted patients in the ED, longer hospital stays and delay in effective inpatient discharge planning (1). Longer ED boarding time and delay in inpatient discharge process are parts of a vicious cycle of internal bottleneck contributing […]
Abstract Number: 167
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Failure to follow-up results of laboratory tests pending at discharge (TPADs) can lead to patient harm. Numerous interventions have been proposed to improve follow-up. The Laboratory Medicine Best Practices (LMBP™) workgroup, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control, commissioned a systematic review to address the impact of various interventions on TPAD documentation, communication, and […]