Meeting
Abstract Number: 12
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Residents are frequently the first physicians notified when acute changes occur in patient conditions. Delays in appropriate diagnostic testing or treatment can adversely affect patients if residents are unfamiliar with certain clinical situations and fail to escalate to an attending physician. Our hospital had no written guidelines on when internal medicine residents should escalate […]