Meeting
Abstract Number: 361
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Medical overuse, defined as the provision of services for which harms outweigh benefits, is increasingly recognized as a driver of high cost and poor clinical outcomes in the U.S. health care system. Despite increasing attention to overuse, methods for reducing it are unclear. In contrast, methods of identification, analysis, and prevention of medical errors […]
Abstract Number: 536
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 23 year-old Guatemalan man presented to the hospital with right sided facial swelling, vesicular lesions on the eyelids and ulcers on the tongue. He was admitted with seven similar episodes during the past three months and was treated with steroids, antibiotics, antihistamines and also antiviral therapy for possible cellulitis and Herpes associated […]