Meeting
Abstract Number: 429
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The most acute patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) requirean admission to the inpatient setting. A timely triage and admission process can improve the outcomes of these critically ill patients. Forty-six percent of admissions through our ED are admitted across multiple medicine services. We originally utilized a rotating Medical Admitting Resident (MAR) to […]
Abstract Number: 463
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: One of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) core competencies (listed as Principle 7) is that Hospitalists provide effective clinical resource utilization. Examples: cost effective care, high-value care, and designing processes that address cost per stay and readmissions. Optimized inpatient throughput has been shown as a strategy to improve overall hospital flow, including streamlined […]
Abstract Number: 542
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 48-year-old male from North Carolina with a history of rheumatoid arthritis presented to the ED with complaints of black tarry melena, nausea, vomiting, and nose bleeds. The patient was found to have stomatitis and severe pancytopenia. He eventually admitted to not understanding his methotrexate dose and stated he accidentally took three times […]