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Abstract Number: 384
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Five percent of Medicare’s patients account for almost 50 percent of its cost. The same 5:50 rule holds true for other insurances. The ongoing changes in health care like Affordable Care Act, Meaningful Use, ICD 10 transition, and Value Based Purchasing has placed acute care hospitals like ours at risk for significant financial […]
Abstract Number: 385
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Effectively screening for sepsis in a hospital setting remains an elusive goal. Designed processes have been plagued by poor specificity [3,5], leading to alarm fatigue [2] and overuse of resources. Electronic tools have attempted to automate some or all screening, but thus far to inconsistent success [1]. Furthermore, for patients screened as septic, quickly […]
Abstract Number: 564
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 81 year old male with medical history of Abdominal Aortic aneurysm(AAA) ,COPD on home oxygen, diverticulitis post colon resection 10 years ago presented to the emergency department with painless hematochezia for 4 days. CT abdomen showed an interval increase in size of his AAA to 6 cm diameter and 8 cm in length […]
Abstract Number: 747
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 65 year old male with ischemic cardiomyopathy, EF of 25% and NYHA III symptoms despite optimal medical therapy, severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and left bundle branch block (LBBB) with QRS>150ms (figure 1) was referred for cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) implantation. The right atrial pacing and right ventricular defibrillator leads were successfully implanted, […]
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Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Hospitalists increasingly confront patient care and policy dilemmas due to financial incentives created by bundled payments, single payments that “bundle” acute and post-acute care for specific diagnoses. The most common and most successful bundled payment has been for total joint replacement, where cost savings have been achieved through discharging patients to home rather than […]