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Abstract Number: 314
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) has been shown to enhance knowledge, skills, and collaborative attitudes among healthcare providers, while also improving patient outcomes. While IPE is becoming more common in undergraduate medical education, many graduate medical education (GME) programs currently lack formal curricula. Those GME curricula that involve experiential learning have focused largely on the nursing […]
Abstract Number: 314
SHM Converge 2024
Background: A 2013 Mayo Clinic initiative (Henkin et al, 2016) to encourage communication between physicians and nurses by paging each to bedside for daily morning rounds improved physician and nursing perceptions of teamwork. Utilizing a mobile electronic-health-record-based alert for such a process has the potential to reduce implementation cost and feasibility barriers but has not […]
Abstract Number: 316
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Communication is critical to high-quality care transitions, yet little is known about the quality of information transfer from the hospital to home health care (HHC) setting. We performed a cross-sectional survey of HHC nurses and staff to evaluate their perspective on the completeness of medical information transferred from hospitals to HHC agencies in Colorado. […]
Abstract Number: 316
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Interdisciplinary Rounds (IDRs) are essential for coordinating patient care on hospital units within the two acute care hospitals of St. Peter’s Health Partners located in Albany, New York (a 440-bed tertiary care hospital and a 160-bed hospital). However, with a length of stay O:E ratio as high as 1.34, we were concerned that not […]
Abstract Number: 318
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Day-to-night inpatient handoff is a high-risk moment, with potential for miscommunication. A novel handoff program recently reduced medical errors and preventable adverse events. Historically, handoffs performed by Internal Medicine residents at our institution were not standardized and there was little workplace-based performance feedback. We evaluated the impact of a novel standardized handoff tool and […]
Abstract Number: 318
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Effective doctor-patient communication is crucial for the exchange of important information. Improved communication can positively influence patient satisfaction, adherence and ultimately can lead to improvement in health outcomes.Patient satisfaction scores in the inpatient setting are elicited using the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey. Effective communication between a physician and […]
Abstract Number: 319
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Throughput is a hospital priority. Decreasing length of stay is essential to decongesting overcrowded hospitals and maintaining financial viability. Purpose: The purpose of the project was to improve throughput through enhanced interdisciplinary communication. Description: We used the LEAN methodology of process improvement to perform a Value Stream Mapping exercise, which brought diverse clinical staff […]
Abstract Number: 327
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Effective patient handoffs during care transitions are crucial in the skilled nursing home setting where physician providers may not round on a daily basis, and the healthcare facility staff has shift changes on a daily basis. Currently, many critical communications regarding patients are shared via private phone calls, text messages, emails and log books. […]
Abstract Number: 329
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Hospital discharge describes the point at which inpatient hospital care ends, with ongoing care transferred to other providers. The coordination of such care typically involves multiple health care providers and social care contributors. The inherent complexity of coordinating a large number of players, often based in different settings and hospitals, leads to hospital discharge […]
Abstract Number: 335
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Recurrent hospitalizations are responsible for considerable health care costs. This retrospective observational study was undertaken to determine whether timely communication of care (COC), such as direct phone call or voicemail notice, following a hospitalization is effective at increasing clinic follow-up rates and reducing readmissions within 30 days after discharge. Methods: We analyzed 237 patients […]