Meeting
Abstract Number: 313
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are limited, so effective triage is important for resource utilization. However, inappropriate triage of critically ill patients to non ICU settings can lead to poor patient outcomes, as early unexpected ICU transfers are associated with increased mortality. Purpose: We sought to describe the effectiveness of Hospital Medicine (HM), Emergency […]
Abstract Number: G13
SHM Converge 2022
Background: In 2017, Emory University Hospital Midtown (EUHM) instituted fast track dialysis (FTD) which identified low risk patients in the emergency department (ED) in need of hemodialysis (HD) and provided it efficiently. The FTD development team consisted of hospital medicine, emergency medicine, nephrology, dialysis unit nursing, and ED nursing. This program showed a reduction in […]