Meeting
Abstract Number: 230
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: As a group of medical students in a five-week leadership program, we were charged with making a medicine inpatient unit at an urban quaternary care academic medical center the best unit in the hospital. Research shows that the hospital spends an estimated $2721 for every inpatient day (Kaiser, AHA Annual Survey, 2015). Longer lengths […]
Abstract Number: 254
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: During 2016, the total billed cost of cardiac monitoring neared 4 million dollars at our institution and many patients were observed on the monitor without approved indication as published by the American Heart Association’s (AHA) guidelines published in 2014. The overutilization of cardiac monitoring constitutes a misappropriation of resources which results in undue health […]
Abstract Number: 282
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Serum B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels, measured on admission and discharge, have been a prudent predictor of outcomes among patients with heart failure. However, daily BNP measurements have no benefits for the management of heart failure and are costly. We investigated the practice pattern in St. Luke’s Hospital, and employed an educational intervention to […]