Meeting
Abstract Number: 167
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are responsible for up to 770,000 inpatient injuries and deaths annually in the United States, most of which are from prescribing errors. Electronic order sets are designed to improve quality by reducing care variability and increasing efficiency of order entry, but may also facilitate prescribing errors via automation bias. There […]
Abstract Number: 298
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Over the past fifty years, remote cardiac monitoring (“telemetry”) has become routine for many patients admitted to the hospital. Telemetry has many clinical benefits and is recommended by the American Heart Association for a limited set of indications, but is often inappropriately used. Overutilization of telemetry can lead to unnecessary tests and procedures, may […]