Meeting
Abstract Number: 440
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: As inpatient medical care has increased in complexity and fragmentation, rounding has become siloed away from patients and by discipline, resulting in disjointed and inefficient care models. In response, hospitalist groups across the country have been implementing unit-based rounding programs to centralize communication and align work-flow of health care team members. At UC San […]
Abstract Number: G21
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) survey is the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patient perspectives of hospital care. HCAPS scoring is tied not only to hospital compensation, but also is an important indicator of and reflection of interactions with patients. Specifically at Rhode Island Hospital, the goal […]
Abstract Number: 1215
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Mortality and morbidity (M&M) rounds have traditionally been held to allow physicians to discuss adverse events and medical errors. In our hospital, M&M rounds are conducted by individual departments, selected from mortality cases and discussions are centred around a diagnosis or topic. There is increasing recognition that this is a missed opportunity for teaching […]