Meeting
Abstract Number: 36
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Many patients and their surrogates have a poor understanding of the process of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), its limitations, and its complications. Lack of knowledge about CPR may lead patients to choose a code status that does not align with their goals and values. Studies have shown that showing patients an educational video about code […]
Abstract Number: 218
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Preventable hospital readmissions are a common problem for medical centers in the United States. Recent studies have focused on what patients perceive as causes for their return to the hospital. One factor driving readmissions is patients’ difficulty anticipating what to expect after they leave the hospital despite discharge instructions, especially anticipating and surmounting challenges […]
Abstract Number: 308
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Managing the complex environment of a general medicine ward requires high performing interdisciplinary teams.(1) In 2016, an Accountable Care Unit (ACU) was implemented on a 35-bed medicine ward at a community based teaching hospital to develop high performing interdisciplinary teams. One of the four features of an ACU is Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR)(2), […]
Abstract Number: 423
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Hospital discharge is a vulnerable time: patients are at risk for readmission, adverse events, and death. Activated patients–those with the knowledge, confidence, and skills to engage in activities that promote self-management–are more likely to execute a safe discharge plan and less likely to be readmitted. Educational videos focused on self-management may increase patient activation […]