Meeting
Abstract Number: 256
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Late discharges are associated with hospital overcrowding, delayed inter-unit patient transfers, lower patient satisfaction scores and longer length of stay. At our hospital, there has been a consistent discordance between the teaching and non-teaching hospitalist services in the percentages of patients discharged before 11 am, which was 8.4% (teaching teams) versus 36.4% (non-teaching teams) […]
Abstract Number: 325
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Both inappropriate hospital admissions and inappropriate discharges from the ED are associated with adverse patient outcomes. Little is known about the accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) of the hospital admission triage process. Purpose: We sought to understand the operating characteristics of our triage process to identify opportunities for improvement and project an optimal model. Description: […]