Meeting
Abstract Number: 76
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Delirium is associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health care costs in the hospital setting secondary to increased length of stay and poor long term outcomes (1,2). A systematic review of different delirium prediction models found limitations with these models including derivation from small patient populations, lack of heterogeneity, accuracy and reliability as noted […]
Abstract Number: 336
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Older adults commonly lose mobility during hospitalization. This loss of mobility may be preventable if it is identified and addressed early in a patient’s hospital course. However, currently there is no systematic method to identify these patients early, and current practices are guided by physician experience and intuition. To this end, we used machine […]