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Search Results for Quality Improvement
Abstract Number: 196
SHM Converge 2021
Background: The ordering of unnecessary daily labs affects the safety of patients through hospital-acquired anemia, patient discomfort, and unnecessary downstream testing. This results in both additional financial and labor costs burdening the health system. As such, establishing effective interventions is warranted with necessary analysis of site-specific lab-ordering culture. We seek to perform this analysis to […]
Abstract Number: 223
SHM Converge 2021
Background: With the rising predominance of shift work in healthcare, provider handoffs are important to facilitate the flow of patient information in a way that supports continuity and quality patient care. The Joint Commission has identified poor communication at handoffs as a major source of adverse events (1) which has led to significant work in […]
Abstract Number: 233
SHM Converge 2021
Background: The occurrence of adverse events due to unsafe health care is thought to be one of the 10 leading causes of death and disability in the world. The harm can be caused by a range of adverse events, with nearly 50% of them preventable. Broad adoption of electronic health records (EHR) should ideally harness […]
Abstract Number: 236
SHM Converge 2021
Background: As COVID-19 spread across the globe, hospitals restricted visitors in an attempt to protect patients and healthcare providers. The absence of in-person visitors and loved ones, who play a central role in clinical decision-making by clarifying medical histories, elucidating patients’ baseline status, and bridging linguistic and cultural divides, left patients vulnerable to social isolation, […]
Abstract Number: 242
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Opioid overdose in the United States continues to rise. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist that is FDA-approved for reversing opioid overdose. Current CDC guidelines recommend prescribing naloxone to patients at high risk of opioid overdose, including patients with concurrent benzodiazepine use, a prior history of overdose, and those receiving high doses of opioids (>50 […]
Abstract Number: 243
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Food insecurity (FI) is “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or…to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” FI, a social determinant of health (SDOH), is associated with worse health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes. A validated 2-question survey with high sensitivity and specificity in identifying food insecure families exists. […]
Abstract Number: 271
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Preventable medical errors are currently the third leading cause of death in the United States following heart disease and cancer (1). In light of this, integration of formal patient safety education into undergraduate medical education has been encouraged by the World Health Organization in order to address issues of quality of care (2). Early […]
Abstract Number: 273
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Croup affects more than 1.4 million children under the age of six in the United States annually. Up to 6% of children with croup are hospitalized at an estimated annual cost of $56 million. Guidelines for Emergency Department (ED) and inpatient management of croup vary and generally rely on limited evidence. Specifically, admission and […]
Abstract Number: 276
SHM Converge 2021
Background: The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)’s Quality Improvement (QI) Special Interest Group’s (QI SIG) mission is “to create and maintain a community that promotes QI by connecting QI enthusiasts to each other and the resources necessary to develop and hone QI skills.” During this year, without in-person local or national meetings as opportunities to […]
Abstract Number: 286
SHM Converge 2021
Background: On inpatient general medicine units, the timing of routine lab draws is not evidence-based, and common practice is for routine labs to be collected in the early morning. However, this collection time may not be optimal for patient satisfaction, nursing and physician workflow, and the overall efficiency of care. It is known that early […]