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Abstract Number: 361
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Medical overuse, defined as the provision of services for which harms outweigh benefits, is increasingly recognized as a driver of high cost and poor clinical outcomes in the U.S. health care system. Despite increasing attention to overuse, methods for reducing it are unclear. In contrast, methods of identification, analysis, and prevention of medical errors […]
Abstract Number: 372
SHM Converge 2024
Background: To address the risk of missed or delayed diagnoses, organizations need to identify and learn from their diagnostic opportunities. However, current approaches to identifying diagnostic opportunities are insensitive, resource intensive and often have low yield.(1,2) Evaluation of diagnostic trajectories can highlight diagnostic opportunities. For example, a patient may re-present to the healthcare system with […]
Abstract Number: 375
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old female, Spanish speaking, Jehovah’s Witness, with a past medical history of insulin-dependent diabetes, PUD 2/2 H pylori treated but not tested for cure, and osteoarthritis who presents with hematemesis of one-day duration and abdominal pain of 5 days duration.The patient woke up vomiting blood on the morning of admission. While the […]
Abstract Number: 378
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences are ubiquitous among internal medicine (IM) residency programs, but often fail to improve patient safety and foster learning.1,2 One key determinant of a successful M&M conference is the choice of patient safety event (i.e. M&M case) that is analyzed or presented. However, the characteristics of an effective M&M case […]
Abstract Number: 557
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 65 year-old man with end-stage renal disease was brought to the Emergency Department (ED) when he developed confusion and shortness of breath at a skilled nursing facility (SNF). He had a recent prolonged hospitalization for pelvic osteomyelitis and was discharged to the SNF 3 days before presentation. In the ED, the providers […]