Meeting
Abstract Number: 216
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Prognostication of survival in advanced cancer patients has been challenging and contributes to poor illness understanding. Prognostic disagreement occurs even amongst providers and is a less studied phenomenon. We introduced the Surprise Question (SQ), “Would I be surprised if this patient died in the next 1 year, 6 months, and 1 month?”, at multidisciplinary […]
Abstract Number: 238
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: The quality of communication between physicians and nurses plays an important role in patient safety and provider job satisfaction. Efforts to improve the effectiveness of MD-RN communication have traditionally disseminated new programs such as staff training or communication tools, rather than improve established routines such as morning rounds. Having MDs and RNs round together […]
Abstract Number: 312
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Interprofessional teamwork in healthcare organizations is crucial to the delivery of quality patient care. Efforts to improve teamwork on hospital medicine units commonly fail due to clinicians and other care team members (case managers and pharmacists) are responsible for patients scattered across numerous floors and units. UK HealthCare developed and implemented the Interprofessional Teamwork […]