Meeting
Abstract Number: 307
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Night coverage for hospital medicine teams can be the most expensive and busy of all shifts. According to 2020 State of Hospital Medicine Report, only 5.7% of teaching centers use a combination of onsite and off-site night-time coverage. In July 2022, our academic hospital medicine team was asked to create an additional inpatient service […]
Abstract Number: 391
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Telemedicine emerged as an innovative approach to addressing staffing shortages for hospitalists in resource-limited areas (1), the COVID-19 surge (2), and off-hour shifts (3). Telemedicine can be adapted to non-traditional hospitalist roles, i.e. the triagist where a hospitalist assesses patients for potential admissions and supports outpatient to inpatient transitions (4). Modifying the triagist to […]