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Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Hospitalization is costly, associated with the potential for adverse medical events and may have deleterious health effects. Hospitalist physicians are uniquely positioned to help patients avoid unnecessary hospitalizations. Our attending-only hospitalist practice in a tertiary academic center admits approximately 350 patients monthly, the majority of which are referred through the emergency department (ED). Our […]
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: National guidelines recommend sampling unilateral pleural effusions to characterize the fluid as either transudative or exudative. Currently, the only method to characterize pleural fluid is by collecting a sample through an invasive drainage procedure that has risks of complications and is uncomfortable for the patient. Few noninvasive methods have been studied to differentiate exudative […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Coordination of inpatient and outpatient care is an important challenge in improving population health but evidence examining the effectiveness of existing care coordination programs is mixed. The Comprehensive Care Physician (CCP) Program at the University of Chicago provides patients at increased risk of hospitalization the opportunity to receive inpatient and outpatient care from the […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: In 2015, medical students in their clinical clerkships (traditionally known as third year medical students) began rotating directly with hospitalist attendings. As we began crafting the rotation, we sought to provide value that was not leveraged elsewhere in their clerkships. Different organizations, including the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Association of American Medical […]
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: We identified a number of quality, patient satisfaction, and staff satisfaction issues that all seemed to be linked to throughput challenges. We had trouble getting patients out of the hospital on discharge day, which set off a number of downstream effects including backups in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Emergency Department (ED). These […]
Plenary Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Hospital medicine is a maturing field that increasingly focuses on providing high value patient care. A key question in the value equation is how different patient census sizes impact care. Our recent research showed that higher patient censuses were associated with longer hospital length of stay and costs. This study follows up on this […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Over the last several years we have seen the rapid growth of the specialty of hospital medicine across the country. One of the unintended consequences of this expansion has been the decrease in direct teaching responsibilities of the medical subspecialists on the inpatient medical teaching services. As these responsibilities have been subsumed by our […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Hospital-acquired C. difficile colitis is associated with increased length of stay (LOS) and significant morbidity and mortality. During hospitalization, patients visit many procedural, diagnostic, and treatment areas throughout the hospital, presenting opportunities for spore contamination of surfaces and nosocomial disease transmission. We developed a novel methodology using electronic health record (EHR) data to map […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Approximately 5-10% of the US population reports a Penicillin (PCN) allergy. Only 1 in 10 of these patients are found to have a positive reaction to PCN. This label comes at a grave cost, with higher incidences of multidrug-resistant nosocomial infections reported among these patients. With the lack of novel antibiotics and the alarming […]
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Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: In hospital-based medicine, maintaining an open line of communication between inpatient teams and community pediatricians serves as an essential component of providing comprehensive patient care and ensuring continuity at time of discharge. At St. Louis Children’s Hospital, inpatient resident teams are responsible for providing timely communication with community pediatricians regarding major patient events. Despite […]