Meeting
Abstract Number: 265
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Insufficient communication, particularly at transitions in patient care, is a common and accepted cause of negative outcomes. Handoffs between hospitalists and primary care physicians (PCPs) are infrequent, occurring in 3-20% of cases (2). Many institutions are using discharge summaries as automated methods of handing off the patient to the PCP, however it has been […]
Abstract Number: 412
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Since the creation of Hospitalists in 1995, there has been much written about the importance of communication with primary care physicians (PCPs) as a routine staple of hospitalization. In practice, the inconsistent nature of hospitalist-PCP communication is well established. National surveys estimate the rates of communication to be between 20-40%. Amidst multiple barriers identified, […]