Meeting
Abstract Number: 1
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Adolescent reproductive health education is essential to prevent transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and teen pregnancy. Half of all new STIs occur among 15-24 year-olds and 1 in 4 adolescent females has had an STI. In the United States, approximately 750,000 teenagers become pregnant per year. Adolescents are known to have poor access […]
Abstract Number: 22
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: With access to big data in medicine, it is becoming increasingly necessary to use tools to automate the pooling of data into relevant thematic structures. Topic modeling is most often used to uncover these thematic structures in large sets of textual data. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is one such algorithm-based topic model that has […]
Abstract Number: 303
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Physicians are increasingly using the social media outlet, Twitter, as a medium to connect and engage. Specifically, Twitter-based journal clubs have created a space for clinicians, educators and researchers to disseminate and discuss recent research. Recognizing this developing landscape, the Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM) began producing a CME-accredited Twitter-based journal club, called #JHMChat […]
Abstract Number: 702
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 40 year old previously healthy female was incidentally found to have elevated transaminases on routine lab work. She was sent to our hospital for further evaluation. On admission, she complained of fatigue, right sided abdominal discomfort, and jaundice of a few weeks. She denied taking prescription medications but reported taking a supplement […]