Meeting
Abstract Number: 222
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Mortality is the first quality metric reported by CMS, and historically a key measure for evidence based medicine since the 1800’s. THINK: John Snow removing the handle from the Broad street well pump to reduce cholera deaths Ignaz Semmelweis demonstrating washing hands reduced puerperal fever and death. Mortality rates are risk adjusted […]
Abstract Number: 436
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Background: Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are being increasingly utilized in hospital medicine groups. However, there is significant variation in how APPs are trained and utilized, resulting in high turnover rates, decreased provider satisfaction, and resistance to adopting a physician-APP practice model. Much of the literature around APP utilization is comparative in nature, describing APP […]
Abstract Number: 446
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Hospitals continue to experience pressures to optimize efficiency and quality outcomes and to reduce practice variation. In surgical patient populations, the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways have been shown to reduce length of stay, postoperative complications, hospital readmissions, and cost by integrating multidisciplinary, evidence-based interventions throughout the perioperative period (1). A similar model […]