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Abstract Number: 348
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Prior to this project, inpatient Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) at UW Health lacked organizational data including volumes, patient experience, hospital acquired conditions, and operational efficiency metrics. In 2016, inpatient APPs collaborated with UW Health’s Analytics and Information Systems team to develop a method for inpatient APP attribution and identification of team-based, APP sensitive metrics […]
Abstract Number: 350
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Procedures, both inpatient and outpatient, are an essential part of the training for family medicine residents. Several residency programs struggle to provide the minimum number of procedures for residents to develop competency and comfort with the said procedures. Hospitalists do offer increased experience with procedures, although more recently, hospitalists are also referring most procedures […]
Abstract Number: 367
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: In the outpatient setting, untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with myriad adverse clinical outcomes including myocardial infarction, heart failure, arrhythmias, and cerebrovascular disease. However, little is known about the impact of treated versus untreated OSA on short-term outcomes in patients hospitalized with acute illness. We propose that the recurrent hypopnea and apnea […]
Abstract Number: 373
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The ABIM’s Choosing Wisely campaign targets daily phlebotomy in medical inpatients as an area of potential wasteful care. Unnecessary phlebotomy increases labor and costs while negatively impacting patient’s through hospital-acquired anemia, intravenous access issues, and false-positive results. While previous interventions have attempted to reduce overall labs ordered, few studies have examined educational attempts to reduce unnecessary lab […]
Abstract Number: 381
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Sickle cell crisis is a acute medical emergency, which may require management in the ICU. Sickle cell anemias are remarkable in their clinical heterogeneity. Some people remain asymptomatic in their adult life, whereas others suffer repeated crisis; requiring multiple hospitalizations. In this study, we determine the demographic factors associated with a high readmission rate […]
Abstract Number: 383
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Hospital overcrowding and extended Emergency Department (ED) wait times are challenges facing most urban hospitals today. There is growing evidence to show that overcrowding in the ED is associated with increased morbidity, mortality and patient dissatisfaction. To improve overcrowding, hospitals have focused on discharge before noon (DBN) as an impactful and sustainable remedy. While […]
Abstract Number: 389
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Inpatient subspecialty consultation is one of the most common physician practices in the care of hospitalized patients. As per a CMS report, approximately 33,000 inpatient consultation occurred per day in 2008 costing Medicare approximately $1.9 billion. Common reasons for requesting a consultation include assistance with treatment, diagnosis, and request for a procedure. Consult quality […]
Abstract Number: 418
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Our 165-bed community hospital is in a phase of rapid growth due to demographic changes and expansion of services offered within the hospital. While offering unprecedented level of healthcare access to the community, improvement with emergency department (ED) throughput has emerged as one of our challenges from a patient safety perspective. Unnecessarily prolonged ED […]
Abstract Number: 425
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Racial/ethnocultural inequities have been demonstrated throughout our health care system, though their presence among patients who undergo interhospital transfer (IHT), commonly done to provide patients with more specialized care, is poorly understood. The goals of this study are to evaluate the association between patient race/ethnicity and IHT to identify potential racial disparities in this […]
Abstract Number: 429
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Around one in five Americans live in rural areas, but only 5 percent of physicians practice in these same areas. As such, hospital located in rural area such as Roosevelt Rehabilitation and Specialty Hospitals (RRHS) struggle with physician staffing. Tele-hospital medicine has expanded rapidly since the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act in […]