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Search Results for Fatigue
Abstract Number: 175
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Fatigability describes how fatigued a patient is at any given level of activity, and is measured as the degree of fatigue a patient experiences after performing a specific amount of activity. The National Institute of Aging has suggested that fatigability is an important measure in patients with conditions where fatigue is a prominent symptom, […]
Abstract Number: 333
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Overuse of non-ICU continuous cardiac (telemetry) monitoring is a well-documented problem that leads to increased hospital cost, alarm fatigue, nursing time loss, and patient discomfort. It is often ordered for detection of clinical deterioration or higher level of nursing care, without corroborating evidence. Several studies have looked at different interventions to reduce inappropriate telemetry […]
Abstract Number: 338
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Best-Practice Alerts (BPAs), utilized to reduce the number of adverse events in medical settings, have limited efficacy partly due to alert fatigue and user desensitization. Alert fatigue often stems from inaccurate alerts firing too often as well as poor physician perception of the efficacy of the alerts, both of which lead to reduced physician […]
Abstract Number: 549
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 71-year-old male with no known past medical history presented with chief complaint of fatigue associated with generalized weakness, malaise, slurring of speech and body aches specifically upper and lower back pain for 3 weeks. He reported working in the woods. Vital signs were unremarkable. Physical exam was remarkable for a faint erythematous […]