Meeting
Abstract Number: 418
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The ACGME identifies care transitions as both a core competency and focus area for the Clinical Learning Environment Review, but there is a scarcity of literature on standardized curricula designed to teach residents how to facilitate safe discharges. While focusing on the patient as the central locus of the transition is important, an under […]
Abstract Number: 437
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Inter-hospital transfer (IHT), defined as the transfer of patients between acute care facilities, is a common practice. Despite assumptions that IHT is done to provide patients with necessary specialized care, the factors which drive patient transfer are highly variable in ways that are not fully explained by differences in patients or hospitals. As such, […]
Abstract Number: 608
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 22 year-old G1P1000 pregnant woman at 24 weeks presented with hypertensive urgency and newly diagnosed intrauterine growth restriction in the setting of pre-eclampsia. On admission her physical exam and laboratory data were unremarkable. The patient was admitted to maternal fetal medicine for closer fetal monitoring. On hospital day (HD) 9 she began […]