Meeting
Abstract Number: 242
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Telemetry is utilized on high risk cardiac patients for monitoring of arrthymias. Guidelines providing clear monitoring indications have been published by AHA to reduce overuse of this resource, which can lead to increased care costs and false positive alerting. Despite the above evidence, our hospital has a high volume of patients on telemetry causing […]
Abstract Number: 285
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Electronic health record (EHR) systems are used by a majority of US hospitals. EHR use has been associated with increased task complexity, clinical data volume and provider documentation demands. Studies of multiple specialties suggest that a significant amount of provider time is spent on indirect patient care activities including turbulent provider workflows and documentation. […]