Meeting
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: 331
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Failures in communication among healthcare personnel are known threats to patient safety. Communication is particularly vulnerable to error when patient care responsibility is transferred from one provider to another (i.e., handoff). In this study we implemented a web-based handoff tool and provider training, and evaluated the impact on preventable adverse events (AEs). Methods: We […]
Abstract Number: 462
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Given the shift-based nature of modern hospital medicine, block schedules where physicians are on clinical service for a defined period of time are common place. As such, end-of-service handoffs are a routine element of hospital medicine practice. Like handoffs to an overnight cross-covering physician, end-of-service handoffs pose a risk to patients if critical information […]
Abstract Number: 497
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 28-year-old woman with sickle cell disease and chronic pain who required inpatient care several times yearly presented with worsening nausea, emesis and uncontrolled pain to the emergency department (ED). Symptoms were typical of prior pain crises. The patient followed regularly with a hematologist undergoing monthly red blood cell exchange transfusions. In the […]