Meeting
Abstract Number: 21
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Communication between patients, nurses and physicians is vital to patient care. Prior studies have shown that a substantial number of hospitalized patients do not understand their care plan and that physician-nurse co-location or time spent communicating have little impact on physician-nurse concordance of plan of care. To our knowledge, there have been no prior […]
Abstract Number: 42
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Discharge planning should begin at the time of admission and, among its many purposes, involves preparing patients for the transition out of the hospital. Unfortunately, many hospitalized patients do not understand or agree with their provider about their discharge plan, including the timing and location of dismissal. When patients and their providers do not […]
Abstract Number: 317
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Interprofessional Plan of Care Rounds (POCR) are an organized assembly of the following health care team members: physicians, nursing, case management, social work, physical therapy, pharmacy, and other ancillary services (Terra, 2015). The purpose of the rounds is for the group to concisely review each patient, his or her goals for the day, discharge […]
Abstract Number: 405
SHM Converge 2023
Background: In November 2021, we initiated a project to improve our length of stay (LOS) and plan of care for patients with a LOS of ≥6 days. We created the Complex Cases Rounds (CCRs) for all patients hospitalized under the hospital medicine service in our community hospital, Emory Johns Creek Hospital. Purpose: CCRs provide a […]