Meeting
Abstract Number: 36
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Nationwide, hospitals are experiencing high patient volumes, attributed to medical complexity, hospital length of stay, and hospital readmissions, among other factors. In this context, hospitalists’ roles have been expanding to optimize care during and following hospitalization. Post-discharge care is typically managed by primary care providers, and there is sparse information on programs that leverage […]
Abstract Number: 217
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is a common and clinically important hospital-associated infection throughout the world. A few data from Japan exist regarding the prevalence and appropriateness of urinary catheters in hospitalized patients but no interventions have been proven to decrease unnecessary urinary catheter use in Japan. Our aim of this study is to […]