Meeting
Abstract Number: 300
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Inappropriate telemetry use has been associated with increased health care cost and unnecessary diagnostic procedures. For these reasons, the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Choosing Wisely campaign promoted use of both American Heart Association (AHA) telemetry guidelines and protocol-driven discontinuation of telemetry. Despite these measures, an estimated 59% of patients are placed on telemetry due […]