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Abstract Number: 202
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is the academic professional home for more than 16,000 hospitalists around the world [1]. The SHM Quality Improvement (QI) Special Interest Group (SIG), which currently has 813 members including residents and medical students, known as QI enthusiasts, uses an online platform, Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX), to share project […]
Abstract Number: 205
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be a life-saving and curative therapy in hematological malignancies. Pre-transplant evaluation for HSCT is a multidisciplinary process that can be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive for patients to navigate. The process requires coordination between several medical subspecialties including pulmonary, cardiology, and mental health, in addition to social workers and […]
Abstract Number: 218
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) is a major focus for hospitalists in both their day-to-day clinical care. In addition, many hospitalists have educational and administrative QI/PS duties, and salary support for them is highly sought after. As part of an ongoing effort to help identify opportunities to further support members of the Society […]
Abstract Number: 222
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Misalignment of goals of care at the End-of-Life exposes patients to risk and the health care system to considerable costs. A lack of end of life conversations can lead to unrealistic patient expectations, patient harm, and multiple hospital readmissions. This study aims to identify physician perspectives on the barriers to initiating end of life […]
Abstract Number: 224
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Drug overdose deaths involving opioids are on the rise in the setting of the current opioid epidemic in the United States (US).1 In 2017 there were ~46.6 drug overdose deaths a day in the US involving prescription opioids.1 Naloxone is a proven and effective opioid antagonist that is FDA approved for use in the […]
Abstract Number: 225
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Guidelines suggest venous thromboembolism risk stratification, and against use of prophylaxis in low risk medically ill hospitalized patients. Our hospital did not have a formal risk stratification process embedded into the electronic medical record (EMR) for provider use, and therefore it was common practice to administer pharmacologic prophylaxis to most medically ill patients regardless […]
Abstract Number: 226
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of hospital readmissions and healthcare costs. HF patients have the highest rate of unexpected readmission of all diseases tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), at 21.2% (1). HF prevalence is also projected to increase 46% from 2012 to 2030, with total costs rising […]
Abstract Number: 232
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Penicillin class antibiotics are the most frequently reported drug allergy in the electronic health record (EHR), but recent studies find
Abstract Number: 237
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Patients are frequently ordered to fast while hospitalized. Though these “nil per os” (NPO) orders are often placed for sound clinical reasons (e.g. small bowel obstruction), they are also frequently placed in preparation for imaging studies or procedures to reduce the theoretical risk of aspiration. There is often a great deal of confusion among […]
Abstract Number: 250
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Patients feel “uncomfortable, vulnerable, and exposed” in their gowns while providers are distressed at seeing and caring for their fellow human beings clad in sub-human “threadbare,” “ugly” garments. The purpose of this study was to create a patient gown based on design suggestions by patients and providers (physicians and nurses) and to refine the […]