Meeting
Abstract Number: 174
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Advances in technology and life-sustaining interventions afford patients access to a wider network of subspecialized care through inter-facility transfers. Implicit in these transfers are multiple complex steps that leave patients vulnerable to adverse events. The few guidelines that exist regarding the inter-facility transfer process focus on critically-ill or surgical patients, and emphasize pre-transfer communication […]
Abstract Number: 277
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Interhospital transfer (IHT) is intended to improve access to specialized therapies, maintain continuity of care, or care concordant with patients’ wishes; however, it is correlated with higher costs, longer length of stay, and greater mortality for many patients, even after illness severity adjustment (1-5). A better understanding of frontline providers’ reasons to accept transfer […]
Abstract Number: 417
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Interhospital transfer is a necessary part of patient care in an increasingly complex healthcare environment. However, it is an ill-defined process that has been associated with increased mortality, cost, and length of stay, even after disease severity adjustment. Purpose: We aim to describe the triage process for interhospital transfer requests at a large, urban […]
Abstract Number: 469
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: At academic institutions and other referral centers the process of accepting transfers from other hospitals has been a challenging and potentially laborious process to coordinate smoothly. It was also one that was not previously reimbursable. However, beginning in 2017 Medicare and other insurance companies began reimbursing Non-Face-to-Face Prolonged services procedural codes. These new codes […]