Meeting
Abstract Number: 187
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: The care of surgical patients is becoming more complex as patients with increasing comorbidities require surgical procedures. In adult hospital medicine, co-management of complex medical patients by hospital medicine and surgery has been shown to decrease length of stay and readmission for many procedures. It remains unclear, however, which patients are most likely to […]
Abstract Number: 266
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: The Joint Commission (TJC) included medication reconciliation (MedRec) as a 2005 National Patient Safety Goal to reduce errors related to medication omissions, duplications and interactions. Medication errors and harms continue to be one of the most widely reported healthcare problems. TJC’s sentinel event database includes > 350 medication errors resulting in death or major […]