HM11 speaker discusses hospitalists' involvement in ED overcrowding
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, May 18, 2011
Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and director of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center's hospital medicine (HM) division says that although HM leaders might think of bed management mostly as a discharge issue, they are at least partially responsible for helping to increase throughput as many ED physicians look to hospitalists for help. At Hospital Medicine 2011, the Society of Hospital Medicine’s annual conference, Howell suggested that hospitalists round on boarders (patients who are admitted to the hospital but housed in the ED, and adding capacity by either adding a new unit or placing patients in hallways, reports The Hospitalist.
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