Meeting
Abstract Number: 418
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24‐year‐old white man presented to our hospital with ulcerative skin lesions and scleritis. He had a history of relapsing polychondritis (RP) that was diagnosed 3 years back and was well controlled for last 1 year with azathioprine 175 mg daily and prednisone 2.5 mg daily. A month prior to his current admission […]
Abstract Number: 418
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Our 165-bed community hospital is in a phase of rapid growth due to demographic changes and expansion of services offered within the hospital. While offering unprecedented level of healthcare access to the community, improvement with emergency department (ED) throughput has emerged as one of our challenges from a patient safety perspective. Unnecessarily prolonged ED […]