Meeting
Abstract Number: 235
SHM Converge 2023
Background: There is no formal curriculum for medical students, residents or advanced practitioner students on appropriate clinical documentation improvement (CDI). As the primary documenters for medical records, several studies have shown benefit in billing, coding and hospital metrics with trainee education [1-2]. Despite this, there remains a scarcity of education on documentation for residents and […]
Abstract Number: 276
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Abstract Text: Background: Safely and efficiently moving patients through the admission process is a key concern for emergency and hospital medicine faculty. Our hospitalist group admits approximately 400 patients per month, each admitting physician evaluates approximately 7.5 patients per shift, utilizing individual approaches. We aimed to improve the quality of our admissions by standardizing our […]
Abstract Number: 462
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Given the shift-based nature of modern hospital medicine, block schedules where physicians are on clinical service for a defined period of time are common place. As such, end-of-service handoffs are a routine element of hospital medicine practice. Like handoffs to an overnight cross-covering physician, end-of-service handoffs pose a risk to patients if critical information […]
Abstract Number: 546
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 18 year old male with Diabetes Mellitus 1 was admitted for management of painful foot ulcerations after having submerged his feet daily in 20 hour ice baths for relief of chronic foot pain. On exam, there were numerous symmetric, foul-smelling, tender, shallow ulcers with overlying crusting and purulent drainage on bilateral dorsal […]