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Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Community acquired severity scores are well known and used routinely in predicting mortality and risk of inpatient and ICU admission in suspected bacterial pneumonia patients. However such scores have not been studied in patients with influenza infection and influenza pneumonia. We attempted to validate one such score, CURB65 and and identify other scores that […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Experts identify empathic responses to patient expressions of negative emotion – such as anxiety, sadness, and anger – as a key component of patient-centered communication, yet evidence on the impact of empathy on patient-reported outcomes in the hospital is limited. Methods: Our study objective was to assess the association between hospitalists’ expressions of empathy […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Like all large academic medical centers (AMCs), we face capacity challenges. On most days, bed occupancy is often greater than 90% and long boarding times in the Emergency Department (ED) leads to poor patient experience, care delays and risk for adverse outcomes. While many AMCs have approached this problem by acquiring new facilities or […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Traditional inpatient procedural fasting practices lead to excessive periods of patient fasting. Patients are unnecessarily ordered to be nil per os (NPO) at midnight, independent of current recommendations and evidence specific to the type of procedure being performed or expected time for the procedure to occur. This approach is based largely on the assumption […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Structured mortality review can help identify care issues and focus quality efforts, but existing methods have limitations. In the Department of Medicine at UCLA, we developed a novel in-person, near real-time, interdisciplinary rapid mortality review (RMR) process to capture the insight of frontline providers and improve care. In this study, we compare the yield […]
Oral Presentations
Abstract Number: 14
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Subspecialty consultation among hospitalists varies significantly across and within hospitals. While in many cases consultation is clinically necessary, in other cases it may represent overuse. Recent studies have explored predictors of consultation using observational administrative and EHR data. Qualitative methods may generate knowledge about additional factors and complex processes influencing consultation behavior not ascertainable […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Community acquired severity scores are well known and used routinely in predicting mortality and risk of inpatient and ICU admission in suspected bacterial pneumonia patients. However such scores have not been studied in patients with influenza infection and influenza pneumonia. We attempted to validate one such score, CURB65 and and identify other scores that […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Experts identify empathic responses to patient expressions of negative emotion – such as anxiety, sadness, and anger – as a key component of patient-centered communication, yet evidence on the impact of empathy on patient-reported outcomes in the hospital is limited. Methods: Our study objective was to assess the association between hospitalists’ expressions of empathy […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Like all large academic medical centers (AMCs), we face capacity challenges. On most days, bed occupancy is often greater than 90% and long boarding times in the Emergency Department (ED) leads to poor patient experience, care delays and risk for adverse outcomes. While many AMCs have approached this problem by acquiring new facilities or […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Traditional inpatient procedural fasting practices lead to excessive periods of patient fasting. Patients are unnecessarily ordered to be nil per os (NPO) at midnight, independent of current recommendations and evidence specific to the type of procedure being performed or expected time for the procedure to occur. This approach is based largely on the assumption […]