Meeting
Abstract Number: 179
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Opening new residency programs in community hospitals is one strategy to address physician shortage. Previous reports have shown better mortality outcomes in university based hospitals. However, less is known about teaching community hospitals. Disrupting well- established workflows in community hospitals is feared to cause an increased cost and possibly a slide in quality of […]
Abstract Number: 219
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: High quality clinical documentation is essential for patient safety. Thoughtful clinical documentation transmits one’s clinical reasoning and is considered to be a professional responsibility. There are no accepted standards for assessing documentation with respect to clinical reasoning. We therefore undertook this study to establish a metric to evaluate hospitalists’ documentation of clinical reasoning in […]