Meeting
Abstract Number: 210
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Inpatient telemetry monitoring began over 4 decades ago. However, recently hospitals have started to implement programs that aim to improve the appropriateness of telemetry use. Quality initiatives take the American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for practice standards for EKG monitoring in hospital settings to reduce the numbers of patients on telemetry inappropriately. Our residency […]