Meeting
Abstract Number: 215
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: It is widely accepted that hospitalized patients warrant risk assessment for venous thromboembolism (VTE) upon hospital admission. Although many VTE risk assessment models include a patient mobility element for calculating risk, a standardized method of determining mobility is lacking. We sought to determine if physician assessment of anticipated patient mobility upon hospital admission using […]
Abstract Number: 272
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: The benefits of early ambulation for patients admitted to a hospital are well recognized. Our hospital has a “Nurse Driven Progressive Mobility Protocol” which is intended to guide bedside practitioners in implementing individualized progressive mobility for patients and includes several items that nurses are required to document. It categorizes patients into 5 mobility levels; […]