Meeting
Abstract Number: 7
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Improving hospital throughput is a barrier facing medical facilities. Poor throughput leads to prolonged patient wait times for beds, a cause of patient complaints. Often these wait times are the result of late discharge times for admitted patients. One focus of multidisciplinary rounds is early discharge, hoping to get admitted patients to their beds […]
Abstract Number: 63
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Multidisciplinary (MDR) team rounds were established at Halifax hospital as daily, dedicated interactions between varying members of the care team on each inpatient floor. Members of the care team include physicians, nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists, and case managers. These multidisciplinary interactions allow for smooth, real-time, and accurate information that facilitate communication and enhance the […]
Abstract Number: 158
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) causes frequent painful episodes from vaso-occlusion. As hospitalists, we identified that SCD patients occupied a large number of hospital days. Undertreatment and lack of standardization of pain management was a likely reason for this. Many of these patients are opiate dependent at baseline. Varying levels of comfort amongst hospitalists in […]