Meeting
Abstract Number: 362
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Cardiac monitoring (CM) is often overused, hindering patient mobility, triggering unnecessary cardiac testing, delaying appropriate discharge, and expending resources. Purpose: To reduce the days that medical and surgical ward patients spend on CM without an indication specified in the 2004 American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for CM. Description: At Cedars-Sinai, only 59% of patients […]