Meeting
Abstract Number: 284
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Traditionally, models of healthcare delivery to hospitalized patients have been indirect and inefficient. The typical hospital system has providers spread between multiple units and nurses interacting with multiple provider teams. Several studies focusing on interdisciplinary rounding (IDR) have shown a variety of positive impacts on hospital-associated metrics such as length of stay (LOS), hospital […]
Abstract Number: 312
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Interprofessional teamwork in healthcare organizations is crucial to the delivery of quality patient care. Efforts to improve teamwork on hospital medicine units commonly fail due to clinicians and other care team members (case managers and pharmacists) are responsible for patients scattered across numerous floors and units. UK HealthCare developed and implemented the Interprofessional Teamwork […]