Meeting
Abstract Number: 42
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Academic medical centers with teaching and non-teaching teams and complex call schedules frequently utilize triage providers to allocate admissions to each inpatient service. In this process, the ED provider hands off the patient to a triage provider, who then hands off the patient to the admitting provider. This sequential handoff can lead to decay […]
Abstract Number: 46
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Physician handoffs between inpatient shifts influence safety and care quality. Handoffs are also at risk for communication failures. Poor care coordination and miscommunication cause 80% of sentinel events nationwide. The rise of the electronic medical record (EMR) presented an opportunity to standardize communication during handoffs. Unfortunately, this potential has thus far gone largely unrealized, […]