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Abstract Number: 237
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Respiratory rate (RR) is a predictor of adverse outcomes and an integral component of many risk prediction scores for hospitalized adults. Despite its clinical value, RRs are often inaccurate and may lead to misclassification of disease severity, potentially jeopardizing patient safety. Purpose: We sought to improve inpatient RR measurement by patient care assistants (PCAs) […]
Abstract Number: 246
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Acutely-ill and multimorbid patients are frequently exposed to unintended medication errors after admission and their impacts on patient safety are profound. Designated ward-pharmacists as team members of our Hospital Medicine Center reconcile medications of hospitalized patients by identifying discrepancies in patients’ current medications and the medication used in acute care in emergency departments or […]
Abstract Number: 276
SHM Converge 2021
Background: The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)’s Quality Improvement (QI) Special Interest Group’s (QI SIG) mission is “to create and maintain a community that promotes QI by connecting QI enthusiasts to each other and the resources necessary to develop and hone QI skills.” During this year, without in-person local or national meetings as opportunities to […]
Abstract Number: 297
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: End-of-service handoffs on inpatient general medicine services occur when there is a transfer of care to new providers, often at the end of a scheduled rotation. This is high-risk time for patients as increased in-hospital mortality has been observed around the time of end-of-service handoffs. The Society of Hospital Medicine recommends use of a […]
Abstract Number: 299
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Traditional measures of workload such as wRVUs may not be adequate to understand the impact of work design on key patient, workforce, and organizational outcomes. In this study, we developed a workforce application to capture clinician perception of workload and environment and then paired this data with electronic workload measures in the EHR in […]
Abstract Number: 309
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Multiple tools have been developed to improve the quality of signout from daytime clinicians to night covering clinicians. However, despite the frequency of holdover signout (new overnight admissions whose care is transferred to a new primary team), there are no studies or generally accepted best practices to ensure a high quality new admission handoff. […]
Abstract Number: 309
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Hospital discharge summaries are critical to transitions of care as they are oftentimes the only substantive form of communication that accompanies patients to their next care setting. The lack of interoperability in our healthcare IT ecosystem amplifies the need for discharge summaries to mitigate subsequent duplication of services and increased costs. These documents must […]
Abstract Number: 314
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Transitions of care are critical to maintaining patient safety and decreasing adverse events, but they remain a complex process with many pitfalls. Electronic Medical Record (EMR) based handoffs can enhance communication by centralizing content for serial handoffs between providers, facilitating real-time updates and automatically incorporating patient data elements. Over the past several years, much […]
Abstract Number: 317
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Handoffs are a part of inpatient medical care and can lead to patient care errors and threats to their safety. Incomplete care transitions during service changes are associated with uncertainty of patient care plans. Current literature on handoffs focuses on day-night handoffs. Our project is intended to assess and improve handoffs at service change […]
Abstract Number: 318
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Transitions of care are known to be high-risk times in healthcare, largely due to communication errors between providers. Prior studies have shown a direct relationship between poor signout practices and adverse events. Verbal handoff tools, such as I-PASS, have been created in efforts to facilitate the signout process. An important aspect of the handoff […]