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Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Inpatient margins and hospital reimbursement have become increasingly dependent upon improving key metrics, such as length of stay and 30-day readmissions. Hospitalists typically lack access to credible, timely, and insightful metrics that inform their practice. In addition, individualized metrics, when available, struggle to properly normalize for patient complexity, warranted variations in care, shared decision-making, […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Inpatient margins and hospital reimbursement have become increasingly dependent upon improving key metrics, such as length of stay and 30-day readmissions. Hospitalists typically lack access to credible, timely, and insightful metrics that inform their practice. In addition, individualized metrics, when available, struggle to properly normalize for patient complexity, warranted variations in care, shared decision-making, […]
Abstract Number: 248
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Patients diagnosed in-hospital with acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) are at high risk for post-discharge complications and readmission similar to patients with chronic conditions. Patient navigation reduces post-discharge complications and readmissions in patients with chronic diseases, however its role in acute conditions is less clear. Similarly, the use of mobile technology to improve patient engagement […]
Abstract Number: 380
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: A somewhat under-discussed topic in EHR implementation is the safety and efficiency consequences of their lengthy build and implementation. After multiple years of stalled clinical innovation while IT staff dedicate their focus to EHR builds, hospital systems undergo an 8 – 16 hour downtime often followed by multiple planned and unplanned downtimes that can […]