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Abstract Number: 99
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: In Canada, as in the US, hospital medicine has become an increasingly important staffing model innovation. Canadian hospitalists are typically Family Physicians and General Internists. In an attempt to advance its hospitalist staffing model into a care model innovation as well, the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region (RQHR) implemented Canada’s first Accountable Care Unit (ACU) […]
Abstract Number: 169
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Hospital at Home (HaH) care is an alternative to traditional hospitalization with potential to address issues of cost and hospital capacity, while improving outcomes and patient satisfaction. In 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services began to consider bundled payments for HaH despite a lack of US-based evidence on patient outcomes, real-world […]
Abstract Number: 583
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 20 year old male with past medical history significant for chronic phase CML, diagnosed approximately 1 year prior to admission, presents for evaluation of worsening right leg pain over the past 2-3 months. At the time of diagnosis of CML, he was started on Imatinib and shortly after developed diffuse bone pain. […]
Abstract Number: 656
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old female with a history of polycythemia vera presented to urgent care with swelling, redness, and pain over her right foot and ankle. She denied any trauma or insect bites. She was diagnosed with cellulitis and treated with intravenous Ceftriaxone for 3 days with minimal improvement. She continued therapy with oral Cefpodoxime, […]