Meeting
Abstract Number: 219
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: High quality clinical documentation is essential for patient safety. Thoughtful clinical documentation transmits one’s clinical reasoning and is considered to be a professional responsibility. There are no accepted standards for assessing documentation with respect to clinical reasoning. We therefore undertook this study to establish a metric to evaluate hospitalists’ documentation of clinical reasoning in […]
Abstract Number: 437
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Inter-hospital transfer (IHT), defined as the transfer of patients between acute care facilities, is a common practice. Despite assumptions that IHT is done to provide patients with necessary specialized care, the factors which drive patient transfer are highly variable in ways that are not fully explained by differences in patients or hospitals. As such, […]