Meeting
Abstract Number: 139
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Mitochondrial disease (MD) refers to a group of clinically heterogeneous disorders that result from dysfunctional oxidative phosphorylation and subsequent cellular incapability to meet energy demands. Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), myoclonus, epilepsy, ataxia with ragged red fibers (MERRFs), chronic progressive ophthalmoplegia, Kearns–Sayre syndrome, and sensory ataxia neuropathy dysarthria ophthalmoplegia are among […]
Abstract Number: 139
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: As hospitals work to reduce avoidable hospital readmission rates, health care delivery systems more broadly have been working to develop efficient, effective health care delivery models under the rubric of accountable care organizations (ACOs). As the principal providers of inpatient‐based care, hospitalists can build on their quality improvement experience in transitions of care to […]