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Abstract Number: 229
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Driven by the current opioid epidemic, drug overdose has become the leading cause of unintentional death nationwide. Efforts are underway to decrease unnecessary opioid prescribing. Hospitalists care for many patients with preexisting opioid prescriptions or appropriately prescribed new opioids at discharge. Though naloxone decreases the morbidity and mortality associated with opioid overdose, most patients […]
Abstract Number: 234
SHM Converge 2021
Background: An innovative team of practicing physician leaders launched a Physician on Duty (POD) program in order to provide daily, pro-active clinical leadership to our Mission Control center. Our Mission Control includes, in addition to the physician team, a clinical team performing centralized staffing, bed placement, transfer center, RN care expediting, and ambulance dispatch services […]
Abstract Number: 264
SHM Converge 2021
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic brought considerable stress to all healthcare providers. The inpatient setting has brought unique challenges to Hospitalists. As we were all adjusting to our new reality both at work and at home, the Division of Hospital Medicine at UC San Diego Health saw the importance of listening in a time of chaos. […]
Abstract Number: 268
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: : Low patient satisfaction can result in financial loss for hospitals, and potentially for individual physicians or groups and patient satisfaction is known to be lower on academic services.1 Increasingly, Medicare funds will be withheld from hospitals for underperformance in patient satisfaction due to Value Based Purchasing (VBP). We identified a low performing, academic […]
Abstract Number: 279
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Physician wellness has become a popular topic with reports of burnout among 50% of hospitalists nationwide. Evidence shows that managers directly impact employee engagement with up to half of provider burnout attributed to the leadership style of a physician’s immediate supervisor. While 360 feedback is a common method used to evaluate employers in the […]
Abstract Number: 283
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Interdisciplinary rounds are an important part of care coordination on medical units and on teaching units they usually are resident-led. After restructuring interdisciplinary rounds in our institution, we began including attending physicians, with the goal to improve care coordination, discharge planning and team communication. Methods: The intervention was conducted on a 35-bed medical teaching […]
Abstract Number: 285
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Electronic health record (EHR) systems are used by a majority of US hospitals. EHR use has been associated with increased task complexity, clinical data volume and provider documentation demands. Studies of multiple specialties suggest that a significant amount of provider time is spent on indirect patient care activities including turbulent provider workflows and documentation. […]
Abstract Number: 288
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Patient record form one of the most important part of clinical care as the primary source for patient information for primary team, consultants, nurses and other paramedic staff and help in providing a higher quality of care, as well as monitoring patient safety. Incomplete patient records are a source of gaps in patient care […]
Abstract Number: 290
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Physicians increasingly utilize electronic health records (EHR) to deliver healthcare, and the EHR has been identified as leading source of physician burnout and frustration [Shanafelt et al]. Studies report up to 52.6% of hospitalists exhibit symptoms of burnout [Roberts et al]. However, there is no data to inform how hospital medicine physicians spend their […]
Abstract Number: 302
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Deployment of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) consumes significant enterprise-wide resources. Hospitals may be reluctant to introduce further changes during the same year, including patient experience improvement initiatives. Deployment efforts may stretch clinical leaders who provide oversight on patient experience efforts. Lastly, EMR is noted to be a major source of provider burnout and deployment […]