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Abstract Number: 35
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Hospitalists increasingly rely upon electronic handoff tools to communicate important patient care information. Our institution transitioned from a paper/verbal handoff process to a completely electronic system in April 2017 for day-to-night patient care handoff. In the fall of 2016, the same system had been adopted for end-of-week service change. Purpose: This study set out […]
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: 336
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Medical housestaff must participate in a handoff process when transitioning between rotations on hospital services. During this time, a new team of residents assumes care for multiple patients. A prior study demonstrated that this critical period of transition is associated with increased mortality among hospitalized patients. Methods of improving daily patient handoffs to overnight […]
Abstract Number: 428
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: End of shift sign out is a major part of inpatient care and occurs multiple times for each patient on a Hospital Medicine service. Sign out guidelines recommend specific elements of the written sign out process to ensure patient safety. Use of these standardized written sign outs has been shown to improve care when […]