Meeting
Abstract Number: 166
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Training in quality improvement (QI) is an essential part of residency and medical practice. Critical to this is accepting that human infallibility is impossible, and we need to shift the culture of medicine from one that places blame on individuals to one where errors and near misses are seen as critical learning opportunities. The […]
Abstract Number: 166
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Sepsis is a leading cause of hospital death and readmission (1-2). Prior work has suggested that early, adequate intravenous fluid (IVF) administration during sepsis care is associated with lower mortality, even among those at risk for fluid overload (including patients with chronic kidney disease [CKD] or heart failure [HF]) (3). At the same time, […]