Meeting
Abstract Number: 251
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Transfers to academic tertiary care centers often involve complicated patients requiring subspecialty consultation and coordination of care. Therefore appropriate handoff and communication from sending to receiving institution is needed to streamline care and minimize redundancies. At our institution, we received approximately 1200 transfer requests annually. Process improvement carries the potential to impact many patients […]