Meeting
Abstract Number: 163
SHM Converge 2024
Background: We conducted a pilot study in an acute care hospital and developed the Saga Fall Risk Model 2 (SFRM2), a fall prediction model comprising eight items: Bedriddenness rank, age, sex, emergency admission, admission to the neurosurgery department, history of falls, independence of eating, and use of hypnotics. Bedriddenness rank is an official scale of […]
Abstract Number: 219
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: High quality clinical documentation is essential for patient safety. Thoughtful clinical documentation transmits one’s clinical reasoning and is considered to be a professional responsibility. There are no accepted standards for assessing documentation with respect to clinical reasoning. We therefore undertook this study to establish a metric to evaluate hospitalists’ documentation of clinical reasoning in […]
Abstract Number: 227
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Interventions to improve inpatient sleep rely on the ability to objectively quantify sleep; however existing methods of measurement (wrist actigraphy and patient survey) are resource intensive and impose a burden on patients. To overcome these barriers, we developed “sleep opportunity” (SLOP), a surrogate metric for sleep derived solely from the electronic health record (EHR). […]