Background: Between 44,000 and 98,000 patients die as the result of medical errors annually. Suboptimal communication is the root cause of most sentinel events in hospitalized patients. Implementation of resident duty hours has resulted in increased frequency of patient handoffs. In turn, increased handoffs are associated with adverse patient safety events. Intensive intern training in […]

Background: Third and fourth year medical students’ experience on general internal medicine ward teams is an integral part of medical student education. At many institutions this experience includes participation in unit based Care Coordination Rounds (CCRs), including our own. These daily multidisciplinary discharge planning meetings are ubiquitous, however students are often uncomfortable presenting at these […]

Background: Millions of people are hospitalized in the United States annually and many of those patients are medically complex requiring a team-based approach to care for their medical problems and complex planning for discharge and the transitions thereafter. The process of discharging a patient is multilayered, time-consuming, and arguably one of the most pivotal times […]

Case Presentation: A 79‐year‐old white man went to the emergency room with complaints of right upper quadrant pain and got an abdominal CT scan done, which revealed some abnormality in his chest. He subsequently underwent a chest CT that was consistent with an infiltrate and mild ground‐glass densities surrounding the right middle lobe. Findings were […]

Background: In an increasingly digital world, there are still many manual and paper based workflows in healthcare. Paper scripts are an area that is prevalent and is the gold standard for certain prescribing behaviors. Paper scripts have numerous challenges, they can be lost, are difficult to track, and physically have to be delivered to the […]

Case Presentation: A 34‐year‐old Guatemalan man with unknown medical history presented with headache. He was seen in the ED 3weeks prior to admission with headache and nausea. He was discharged after physical examination (PE), neurological examination, laboratory results and spine radiograph were unremarkable. After 1 week, he went back to ED due to worsening headache, […]