Meeting
Abstract Number: 39
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Career success as an Internal Medicine (IM) physician requires more than exceptional medical knowledge and patient care. In professional practice, IM physicians hold leadership positions in multidisciplinary patient care groups, spearhead change management initiatives and lead quality improvement projects1,2. Despite the documented importance of physician leadership skills3,4, there is little time devoted to leadership […]
Abstract Number: 234
SHM Converge 2021
Background: An innovative team of practicing physician leaders launched a Physician on Duty (POD) program in order to provide daily, pro-active clinical leadership to our Mission Control center. Our Mission Control includes, in addition to the physician team, a clinical team performing centralized staffing, bed placement, transfer center, RN care expediting, and ambulance dispatch services […]
Abstract Number: 290
SHM Converge 2021
Background: The evolving COVID-19 pandemic has raised direct patient care clinical questions that require rapid answers and flexibility in data generation and analysis. Thorough and reliable patient-level data is not available at the local, state, national, or international levels. Institutional efforts to produce datasets derived from electronic health records (EHR) can take months to years […]