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Abstract Number: 198
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The need to improve patient satisfaction (or patient experience) is increasing dramatically. Patient satisfaction is not only a direct indicator of quality of care but it is also an important component of pay for performance metrics. We started a standardized process of admitting patients by developing dedicated admission teams called Patient Centered Admission Teams […]
Abstract Number: 208
SHM Converge 2023
Background: The pediatric discharge education process currently struggles with a lack of standardization, miscommunication between care team members, and non-patient-centered discharge communication. These issues contribute to medical errors, increased readmissions, patient dissatisfaction, and unnecessary healthcare costs. The purpose of this study is to understand the current level of caregiver comprehension in our hospital, streamline the […]
Abstract Number: 208
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Obtaining blood work through venipuncture is an important part of the diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients. Through formal and informal patient complaints, we found that patients admitted to the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) report an excessive number of venipunctures for laboratory blood sampling. This results in overuse of resources, excess patient discomfort, […]
Abstract Number: 211
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Regulatory agencies have set a 60-minute window to communicate positive CT PE (computed tomography pulmonary embolism) results to ordering providers. Improving the effectiveness of communication among caregivers for critical results of tests is a national patient safety goal. Our current system of communicating positive results to providers was inconsistent (mean time to verbal report […]
Abstract Number: 246
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Multiple safety reports were reviewed for missed doses of critical medications on admission to the inpatient rehabilitation units at a large academic medical center. It was found that providers were inconsistently or incorrectly using the admission medication reconciliation (AdmMedRec) functionality in EHR that could have prevented these errors.Many hospitals struggle with AdmMedRec due to […]
Abstract Number: 247
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Long discharge times (DT), (the time from discharge order to patient leaving room), have detrimental impacts on any hospital. Apart from causing dissatisfaction among patients and their families who are waiting to go home, prolonged DT also increases wait times for patients being admitted from the ED. Delayed admissions pursuant to late discharges, caused […]
Abstract Number: 251
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Transfers to academic tertiary care centers often involve complicated patients requiring subspecialty consultation and coordination of care. Therefore appropriate handoff and communication from sending to receiving institution is needed to streamline care and minimize redundancies. At our institution, we received approximately 1200 transfer requests annually. Process improvement carries the potential to impact many patients […]
Abstract Number: 251
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Sepsis is a major cause of mortality in hospitalized patients, and early treatment is critical to survival. However, there is a paucity of research on methods to assist real-time clinical decision-making for sepsis treatment. Utilizing data on patients who had sepsis in the ICU, we propose a novel data-driven framework for recommending treatments by […]
Abstract Number: 268
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Efficient discharge planning for hospital medicine patients requires alignment across multiple disciplines. Understanding how clinicians communicate information about discharge readiness can identify opportunities to improve discharge coordination and impact length of stay, hospital capacity, and patient satisfaction. The objective of this study was to outline the existing information gathering and communication pathways around discharge […]
Abstract Number: 271
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Many efforts to improve bed availability in hospitals with high occupancy focus on encouraging providers to discharge patients earlier in the day without making substantial changes to workflows or to address barriers to patient care progression. Unfortunately, when this is most needed is often when teams are at their busiest with high census and […]