Meeting
Abstract Number: 14
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Patient evaluation of satisfaction with their physician has been utilized for several years and is now being included as a parameter utilized to calculate reimbursement. Despite the routine use of these evaluations by most hospitals and agencies, little research has been done to evaluate the metrics of patient evaluations. We sought to assess whether […]
Abstract Number: 223
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: A “safe” hospitalist workload – that is, the point at which caring for too many patients leads to poorer outcomes for each individual patient – has not been defined. We sought to understand whether the workload of a resident-run inpatient team, measured by number of orders entered into the electronic medical record, was associated […]