Meeting
Abstract Number: 222
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Increasing attention has been paid to diagnostic patient safety vulnerabilities, which account for 6 to 17% of hospital adverse events. In 2015, the National Academies of Medicine published a report on diagnostic safety errors, including their causes and evidence to-date on how to intervene to reduce the harm associated with them. In this report, […]
Abstract Number: 282
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Financial incentives motivate hospitals to focus on improving patient experience, quality indicators, and efficiency metrics. Efforts to geographically staff hospitalists have renewed the focus on quality improvement efforts at the inpatient unit level. However, in order to maximize the benefit of geographic staffing, a unit-level leadership structure and quality-improvement support system must be developed. […]
Abstract Number: 349
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Prescribing of opioid medications has been a hot button issue for at least a decade now. Hospitalists play a unique role as we are on the front lines of patient care and have to coordinate care between specialists and primary care physicians. That role as well as patient demands may make the path of […]
Abstract Number: 357
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) is the most common hospital acquired infection and constitutes upto 40% of all Healthcare Associated infections. Urinary catheter is used in 15% to 25% of hospitalized patients and often utilized for inappropriate indications. Daily risk of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is 3 to 7% with the use of […]