Meeting
Abstract Number: 514
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 79-year-old African American male patient with a past medical history of prostate cancer presented with progressive weakness, headache, and confusion. Free and total PSA levels were within normal limits. Brain MRI showed a 4.1×3.3×4.1 cm left frontal lesion at the surface of the left lateral ventricle with vasogenic edema and midline shift. […]
Abstract Number: 514
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) accounts for more than 100,000 deaths per year and costs the health care system about $15,000 per event. Methods to increase appropriate prophylaxis have included computerized physician order entry (CPOE) with decision support, dashboards, and pay‐for‐performance (P4P) programs. In this study, we sequentially examined CPOE‐based decision support alone, group and individualized […]