Meeting
Abstract Number: 384
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Five percent of Medicare’s patients account for almost 50 percent of its cost. The same 5:50 rule holds true for other insurances. The ongoing changes in health care like Affordable Care Act, Meaningful Use, ICD 10 transition, and Value Based Purchasing has placed acute care hospitals like ours at risk for significant financial […]
Abstract Number: 397
SHM Converge 2023
Background: 22% of the hospitals overall STAR rating is based on readmission reduction for the following disease specific groups: pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure. Creating strategies surrounding prevention of readmissions that create workload balance leads to improved ability to manage these patients. The hospitalist medicine, emergency medicine, pulmonary, […]
Abstract Number: 596
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 90-year-old man with chronic kidney disease and benign prostatic hyperplasia presented with a 4-month history of persistent mucous diarrhea, abdominal pain, and a few episodes of enterorrhagia. On exam, vital signs were normal except for hypotension. He was in mild acute distress but alert and oriented. He had dry mucous membranes and […]