Meeting
Abstract Number: 207
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Mortality review, well-documented in the medical literature, is a standardized process used to identify patient safety improvement opportunities and also to evaluate providers. As patient safety experts, hospitalists often review mortality cases for their hospitalist group or hospital. As the volume of cases is often not trivial, it can be difficult to allocate the […]
Abstract Number: 249
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Family Partners (FP) are peer mentors trained to support parents facing clinical situations similar to what FPs previously experienced with their own children. FPs offer a family-centered, cost-effective intervention that can improve outcomes, particularly for children with prematurity or chronic diseases. Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a high need, high cost population with […]
Abstract Number: 313
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: In an attempt to enhance the quality of the care we deliver as a Group in the hospital, we undertook the formation of a Quality Assurance Committee. It is composed of 3 MD’s, one of whom is Administration level, an APRN and a PAC. It is peer level and protected, and we invited all […]