Meeting
Abstract Number: 371
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Clinician prescribing practices are a contributing factor to and potential mitigator of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Several studies have identified the hospital setting as an important entry point into chronic opioid use. The Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have made recommendations for […]
Abstract Number: 475
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 25-year-old woman with a remote history of intravenous drug use, last reported seven months prior, presented with two days of progressive cyanosis and pain of the medial right hand with associated paresthesia, hyperesthesia, and stiffness. Physical exam revealed well-demarcated cyanosis of the fourth, fifth, and medial third digits extending to the wrist […]
Abstract Number: 1206
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: To curb the growing opioid epidemic, hospitalists need to re-examine inpatient opioid use and increase utilization of alternatives to opioids for pain management. Of 1.1 million nonsurgical inpatients across 286 US hospitals from July 2009 to June 2010, 51% received an opioid during hospitalization and more than half with inpatient exposure were prescribed opioids […]