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Search Results for Equity
Abstract Number: 334
SHM Converge 2024
Background: A patient’s hospitalization encounter is a valuable opportunity to align potential social and structural barriers with the healthcare multidisciplinary team’s (MDT) resources for intervention. Teaching learners to assess and address social determinants of health (SDH) is a key objective of medical education and becoming a physician. Few studies describe curricula implementing these skills during […]
Abstract Number: 334
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Microaggressions (MA) are everyday verbal, nonverbal and environmental slights, snubs or insults whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile messages to marginalized people. Microaggressions have been increasingly recognized as harmful to learners in clinical settings, creating a stressful work environment that unfairly erodes learners’ well-being and ability to succeed. Purpose: Our purpose was to […]
Abstract Number: 343
SHM Converge 2024
Background: The benefits of recruiting health care professionals with lived experiences which reflect the patients they serve are well known. Ethnic and racial concordance between physicians and patients has been shown to improve care for marginalized patients as well as decrease the implicit biases of their fellow colleagues. Systemic racism’s impact on physician representation necessitates […]
Abstract Number: 346
SHM Converge 2024
Background: The year 2020 was pivotal for physician trainees. The harrowing disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infection and deaths left many trainees with a sense of anguish and urgency for working towards health equity. However, surveys of Internal Medicine residents have shown that their knowledge of healthcare disparities is poor, with minimal improvement and exposure during training. […]
Abstract Number: 361
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Although hospitals and hospitalists often engage in work to improve patient care and quality, rarely does such work directly seek engagement from patients and communities. Even when direct to patient surveys are distributed, historically marginalized populations are often underrepresented. Understanding how to authentically engage with communities is integral to improving patient experience and ensuring […]
Abstract Number: 362
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Microaggressions and bias events in the clinical environment are widespread and have both individual and structural consequences. Microaggressions are brief and mundane verbal, environmental, or behavioral slights that communicate bias, hostility, or prejudice toward any group. Microaggressions can occur in a variety of interactions between the physician and patients, learners, colleagues, and staff. Studies […]
Abstract Number: 375
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Increasingly, hospitalizations are becoming more complex and patients are frequently discharged from the hospital with new medical diagnoses, medications, and need for close follow up care (1,2). In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act published meaningful use rules for using the Electronic Health Record (EHR), which included that the […]
Abstract Number: 385
SHM Converge 2024
Background: The existing literature suggests there is no significant difference in risk adjusted inpatient mortality between patients whose preferred language is English and those who preferred a non-English language.1 However, these studies typically exclude patients with missing language data from analysis. Purpose: In our health system, missing language data is specified in the electronic health […]
Abstract Number: 387
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Hospital systems are increasingly focusing on health equity, including identifying and addressing social drivers of health and healthcare disparities. Conventional quality improvement (QI) approaches have been used to address disparities with varying success. In our health system, using QI to increase use of interpreters has been the primary intervention for improving outcomes in patients […]
Abstract Number: 874
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old male with a history of trauma, depression, anxiety, foster system placement, and poorly controlled type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) (A1C>14) with frequent admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) presented with presyncope and 2 weeks of severe epigastric and RUQ abdominal pain. He endorsed inconsistent insulin use and frequent dietary indiscretion in part […]