Meeting
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Coordination of inpatient and outpatient care is an important challenge in improving population health but evidence examining the effectiveness of existing care coordination programs is mixed. The Comprehensive Care Physician (CCP) Program at the University of Chicago provides patients at increased risk of hospitalization the opportunity to receive inpatient and outpatient care from the […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Coordination of inpatient and outpatient care is an important challenge in improving population health but evidence examining the effectiveness of existing care coordination programs is mixed. The Comprehensive Care Physician (CCP) Program at the University of Chicago provides patients at increased risk of hospitalization the opportunity to receive inpatient and outpatient care from the […]
Abstract Number: 21
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is a goal-directed, bedside ultrasound examination performed by a healthcare provider to answer a specific diagnostic question or guide performance of an invasive procedure at the bedside. More hospitalists have begun to use POCUS, but little is known about current POCUS usage by hospitalists. We conducted a national survey […]
Abstract Number: 140
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Academic hospitalists aspire to be highly effective teachers and must demonstrate excellence in teaching to be promoted. Internal Medicine (IM) residency programs increasingly rely on such hospitalists to supervise residents when they are on inpatient service. Accordingly, outstanding resident teaching and evaluations are imperative to the advancement of academic hospitalists and the success of […]
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 […]