From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Ada Offurum MD (University of Maryland Medical Center), Nidhi Goel MD Background In 2014, our tertiary care academic center had a small group of providers, case managers, and social workers who would elevate the cases of patients...
Improving care transitions including hospital discharge
Hospitalists managing surgical patients leads to an Increase in Patient Satisfaction and Efficiency on the Surgery wards
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Chetan Virmani MD, MPH (NYU Langone Health (Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine), Marwa Moussa MD, Michael Wachs (Masters in Healthy Administration), Akuezunkpa Ude Welcome MD Frank Volpicelli MD Background The...
Improving Inter-team Communication by Standardizing Written Sign Out
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Taikchan Lildar MD (Flushing Hospital Medical Center), John Elmeneawy MD, Sana Falak MD, Win Si Thu MD, Kelly Cervellione MA, Tamar Toronjadze MD Background Miscommunication amongst providers contributes to around 250,000 deaths...
Improved hospital discharge and cost savings with esophageal cooling during left atrial ablation
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Christopher Joseph BA (University of Texas Southwestern Medical School), Julie Cooper BS, Samuel McDonald MD, Robert Turer MD, Erik Kulstad MD, James Daniels MD Background Left atrial ablation to obtain pulmonary vein isolation...
An Analysis of Patient Portal Enrollment During Transitions of Care
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Mahip Grewal BA (NYU Grossman School of Medicine), Jamie Schlacter BS (NYU Grossman School of Medicine), Michael Martinez BS, Kevin Eaton MD Background The recent passage of the 21st Century Cures Act “open notes” mandate...
PROMOTE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION BY IMPLEMENTING STRUCTURED INTERDISCIPLINARY DAILY ROUNDS
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Saida Kent, Doctor of Medicine (St. Louis University Hospital), Zafar Jamkhana, Doctor of Medicine Background Optimization of patient throughput can improve the quality of care patients receive. One key area of throughput is...
Improving the Inpatient/Home-Based Communication in a Palliative Care Continuum Through Use of a Smart Phrase
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Stephanie Downs CRNP, MSN (Lehigh Valley Health Network), Imran Shariff MD, Kimberly Spering CRNP, Jennifer Cooper BSN, Kathryn Zaffiri MPH Objectives - Improve communication between inpatient and home-based palliative care...
Increasing the Rate of Discharges Before 11 AM at Osceola Regional Medical Center
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Rey Marrero Alamo MD (University of Central Florida HCA Healthcare GME, Greater Orlando, Florida), Melissa Khalil MD, Victoria Odeleye MD, Heather McGovern DO, Musab Shouman MD, Zeeshan Zafar MD, George Alvarez DO, Joshua Shultz...
Improving Safety of Written Sign-out in an Internal Medicine Residency Program Using I-PASS
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference John Gaskill DO (Cleveland Clinic Foundation), Jenna Carson MD, Aidan Neustadtl MD, Jiafei Niu DO, Nivaas Thanoo MD, Gretchen Santana Cepero MD Background Patient handoffs are a critical time to ensure patient safety....
A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Discharge Before Noon at a Children’s Hospital
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Logen Breehl DO (Akron Children's Hospital), Marshall Leland DO, Allison Schule MD, Brittany Potts MD, Karen Willis MD, Samantha Gunkelman MD, Karan Johnson MSN RN, Angela Contant MSN RN, Prabi Rajbhandari MD Background The...
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