Meeting
Abstract Number: 408
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Development of opiate use disorder and opiate overdose has been associated with prolonged opiate-days prescribed. Conventionally, opiate-days supplied has been calculated based on the discharge prescription signature (e.g., how a patient is supposed to take the medication) and the number of pills dispensed. It is not clear whether the number of days supplied reflects […]
Abstract Number: 768
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 68 year-old male transferred from an outside hospital to this tertiary care academic medical center. He presented at the outside hospital with syncope, nausea, diarrhea, rash, profound weakness and fever. Because he was a rancher and frequently had tick bites, with one recently found to be deeply embedded and engorged with blood, […]