Meeting
Abstract Number: 211
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Regulatory agencies have set a 60-minute window to communicate positive CT PE (computed tomography pulmonary embolism) results to ordering providers. Improving the effectiveness of communication among caregivers for critical results of tests is a national patient safety goal. Our current system of communicating positive results to providers was inconsistent (mean time to verbal report […]