Meeting
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: 334
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Studies have shown that care transitions represent times of great risk, especially to vulnerable patients; medication reconciliation is a major component of ensuring safe care transitions. Yet, challenges exist to obtaining a best possible home medication list (BPHML) on a provider, patient, and institutional level. Academic hospitals have large pools of in-training providers. Safety […]
Abstract Number: 377
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Telemetry is overused in hospitals and continues to be a source of health system waste. Although there have been studies on the cause as well as efforts to reduce telemetry overuse, the extent to which physicians are aware that their patients are on telemetry has not been studied. Unawareness of telemetry status has both […]
Abstract Number: 386
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The United States is responsible for 43% of lab expenditures worldwide, and up to 30% of lab tests may be unnecessary. Purpose: This project aims to determine if a human “best practice alert (BPA)” could decrease the number of unnecessary labs ordered by residents at a major academic medical center. Description: Three internal medicine […]