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Abstract Number: 136
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: A small population of patients disproportionately consume an increasing share of medical resources. These super-utilizers often have complex medical and psychosocial conditions that require carefully coordinated, individualized care. As this population drives unplanned readmissions, programs to reduce readmissions may create unintended incentives to direct super-utilizers to another hospital system. This study was designed to […]
Abstract Number: 137
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Transitions of care, whether between or within institutions, are an important source of errors, inefficiency, and unnecessary costs. Inter-hospital transfers are complicated by incongruent information systems, indirect and asynchronous communication, and geographical distance all in settings of high patient complexity and acuity. We developed a large database of patients transferred between hospitals to identify […]
Abstract Number: 332
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Care transitions expose hospitalized patients to risks of discontinuity of care. Although various forms of care transitions have been widely studied, little is known about inter-hospital transfers (IHT, the transfer of patients between acute care hospitals). We used national Medicare data to examine the frequency of IHT and compare patient characteristics of transferred versus […]
Abstract Number: 344
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Direct hospital admissions from outside emergency departments and hospitals comprise a large proportion of admissions to tertiary medical centers. Clinical stability in these acutely ill patients can fluctuate, even during transport to a receiving medical center. Here, we report data obtained as part of an internal quality improvement initiative to identity clinical criteria present […]
Abstract Number: 346
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: As electronic health records (EHR) become ubiquitous, the impact on patient outcomes remains largely unknown. One major communication barrier during patient transfers is the lack of interoperability between EHR systems. Inter-hospital transfers involve transitioning high acuity patients between hospital systems that may not be able to directly communicate with one another, creating the ideal […]