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Abstract Number: E11
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Security emergency responses (SERs) are utilized by hospitals to ensure the safety of patients and staff but can cause unintended morbidity. The presence of racial inequities in SER utilization has not been clearly elucidated. We sought to determine whether Black and Latinx patients experience higher rates of SER and physical restraints than white patients […]
Abstract Number: F17
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Hospital-at-Home (HaH) is a safe and effective alternative to high-cost, traditional hospitalization in patients with a range of medical conditions, such as non-severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The COVID-19 pandemic created a unique situation with favorable policy changes, hospital resource constraints, and a clearly defined patient population that helped to increase HaH program deployment and […]
Abstract Number: G20
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has stressed patients, hospital systems, and society and, while treatment modalities are continuously evolving. A phase 3 clinical trial of monoclonal antibody infusion in appropriate patients with Casirivimab and Imbdevimab demonstrated a 70% reduction in hospitalization or all-cause death compared to placebo (ref 1). An emergency use authorization by […]
Abstract Number: G27
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 76 year-old woman with coronary artery disease, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease presented to the ER with a one-day history of profound generalized weakness and acute severe anemia. She had known diverticulosis and was taking aspirin 81 mg twice daily status-post a left total hip arthroplasty three weeks prior. Review of systems […]
Abstract Number: H12
SHM Converge 2022
Background: While the electronic health record (EHR) provides many benefits, its use can easily allow for incomplete documentation of relevant historical information. The EHR is designed to store documentation of a patient’s past medical history (PMH), surgical history (PSH), family history (FH), and active hospital problems in the History tab. When the information is in […]
Abstract Number: H15
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has required healthcare systems around the world to rapidly innovate and adapt to unprecedented operational and clinical strain. Anticipated limitations in healthcare resource allocation is coupled by the strife caused by the variable clinical course of COVID-19 and the isolation of families inevitable with an inpatient admission. Many healthcare systems have […]
Abstract Number: I13
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey distributed by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) services measures patient perceptions of hospital experience and impacts annual CMS reimbursement. This study focuses on the “Quiet at Night” variable, to identify the top box institutions and identify the key characteristics that enable […]
Abstract Number: J19
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Syrian health system capacity has been devastated by a decade of conflict distinguished by frequent attacks on healthcare facilities and workers. The chronic nature of complex emergency created substantial gaps in formal training for what remains of the health system, leaving already impaired infrastructure vulnerable to the arrival of Covid-19 in mid-2020 to areas […]
Abstract Number: K19
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The United States incarcerates more people than any other country (1) and there are gross inequities in who is incarcerated. Native Americans are more than twice as likely to be incarcerated as White Americans (2); Black Americans are incarcerated at a rates five times higher (3). People with lower incomes face higher incarceration rates, […]
Abstract Number: K21
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Plastic waste contaminates all planetary ecosystems, impacting human and animal health. The United States is the largest generator of plastic waste in the world, and the healthcare industry produces a disproportionate amount due to a reliance on single-use products. The COVID-19 pandemic has seemingly led to a global increase in plastic waste, partially correlated […]