Trust the Process: A Templated, Centralized, and Protocolized Patient Safety Pilot Project to Improve Outside Admissions

Authors

Alan A. Kubey, MD, Thomas Jefferson University; Mayo ClinicFollow
Jeffrey M. Riggio, MD, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow

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Description

Transfers are high-risk. Intra-hospital transfer processes research has improved protocols used nationally.1 Outside-hospital admissions remain without standards ensuring the transfer of the right information to the right clinician at the right time; presently, patients can arrive at a new hospital with limited-to-no information.2We trialed a novel process for outside (hospital, provider, or skilled nursing facility) admissions to a single academic medical center’s resident and- hospital-medicine-attending-based (“teaching”) medicine services.

Publication Date

4-11-2019

Keywords

quality improvement, process improvement, outside transfer, patient safety

Disciplines

Internal Medicine | Medicine and Health Sciences

Comments

Presented at the 2019 ACP Annual Conference in Philadelphia

Recommended Citation

Kubey, MD, Alan A. and Riggio, MD, Jeffrey M., "Trust the Process: A Templated, Centralized, and Protocolized Patient Safety Pilot Project to Improve Outside Admissions" (2019). Department of Medicine Posters. 15.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/medposters/15