Meeting
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 […]
Abstract Number: 254
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Patients are discharged home on medications different than those they were taking before admission. New and discontinued medications as well as dosage changes contribute to medication-related adverse events. Purpose: To help address this problem, interns in our program developed a standard process during their quality improvement (QI) curriculum to ensure that at least 95% […]
Abstract Number: 270
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Communication breakdown plays a part in the majority of adverse events in healthcare. Physician to physician handoffs are particularly prone to communication errors, yet have been shown to be more complete when systematized according to a standardized bundle. However, the degree to which individual elements of this bundle, including written versus verbal handoffs, contribute […]