Meeting
Abstract Number: 164
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Our facility's 30‐day hospital readmission rate is 18%, which is higher than the accepted rate of 13%. Research shows that interventions emphasizing education on disease self‐management and symptom awareness significantly reduces readmissions. Purpose: Our aim was to develop a multidisciplinary approach to improve the quality of our inpatient education to reduce hospital readmissions. Description: […]
Abstract Number: 164
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: The risk for serious infections and poor treatment outcomes is reported to be higher in patients with diabetes compared to the general population. Omadacycline (OMC) is an intravenous (IV) and oral aminomethylcycline antibiotic approved in the US to treat acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) in adults. […]