Meeting
Abstract Number: 325
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Diabetes mellitus is common among hospitalized patients. An inpatient diabetes management service (IDMS) was implemented at a community hospital in suburban Maryland to provide better glycemic control for inpatients. Purpose: To analyze the length of stay (LOS) and 30-day readmission rate (30DR) of patients co-managed by an IDMS team. Description: We retrospectively analyzed LOS […]
Abstract Number: 332
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Sepsis is a leading cause of death in US hospitals, and is a major contributor to hospital mortality and length of stay. Much has been done in hospitals nationwide to identify and treat sepsis early. Similarly, at Bridgeport Hospital, a clinical redesign was initiated to identify and act on patients with signs of sepsis […]
Abstract Number: 355
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The EMR does not provide readily available information that conveys an at-a-glance understanding of discharge progress for a given patient. Healthcare workers have different workflows and need to manage the information in different ways, with a reliance on one-to-one conversations. We believe that optimizing patient length of stay is hindered by lack of: data […]
Abstract Number: 450
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The “weekend effect” is a term to define worse outcomes among patients that present to the hospital on weekends. For upper gastrointestinal bleed (UGIB) some of these outcomes include increased mortality and increased length of stay (LOS). A 2018 meta-analysis suggests that mortality is higher for non-variceal bleed than for variceal bleed for weekend […]
Abstract Number: 454
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The annual incidence of sepsis is about 1.7 million in the United States and about 270,000 Americans die as a result of sepsis each year. Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia seen in hospitalized patients and has shown to unfavorably alter the cardiovascular hemodynamics in patients admitted with sepsis. However there are only […]