Meeting
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 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 […]
Abstract Number: 216
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The first 24 hours of a patient’s hospitalization is a vulnerable time period, with many aspects of care occurring at a time when patients are at their highest levels of medical acuity. Compounding this, delays in care during the transition from the ED to an inpatient level of care could result in potentially avoidable […]
Abstract Number: 266
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: The Joint Commission (TJC) included medication reconciliation (MedRec) as a 2005 National Patient Safety Goal to reduce errors related to medication omissions, duplications and interactions. Medication errors and harms continue to be one of the most widely reported healthcare problems. TJC’s sentinel event database includes > 350 medication errors resulting in death or major […]