Meeting
Abstract Number: 309
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Multiple tools have been developed to improve the quality of signout from daytime clinicians to night covering clinicians. However, despite the frequency of holdover signout (new overnight admissions whose care is transferred to a new primary team), there are no studies or generally accepted best practices to ensure a high quality new admission handoff. […]
Abstract Number: 363
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: As a result of the 2011 ACGME duty-hour policies, many residencies have transitioned to a shift-work system, where swing and overnight residents admit patients for handoff to a new primary team the following morning. In our Internal Medicine residency program, up to 70% of admitted patients are handed off in this fashion. These “holdover […]